fended

英 [ˈfendɪd]

美 [ˈfendɪd]

v.  照料，照顾(自己)
fend的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• VERB 照料，照顾(自己)
  If you have tofend foryourself, you have to look after yourself without relying on help from anyone else.
  1. The woman and her young baby had been thrown out and left to fend for themselves.
     这个女人和她年幼的婴儿被赶了出来，无人照管。
• PHRASAL VERB 挡开，避开(问题或人)
  If youfend offunwanted questions, problems, or people, you stop them from affecting you or defend yourself from them, but often only for a short time and without dealing with them completely.
  1. He looked relaxed and determined as he fended off questions from the world's Press...
     他回避各国媒体的提问时显得轻松而果决。
  2. He had struggled to pay off creditors but couldn't fend them off any longer.
     他曾想方设法还债主的钱，但却再也躲不过他们了。
• PHRASAL VERB 挡住，抵挡(攻击)
  If youfend offsomeone who is attacking you, you use your arms or something such as a stick to defend yourself from their blows.
  1. He raised his hand to fend off the blow.
     他抬起手来抵挡那一拳。

双语例句

• He dodged and fended off silently.
  他一声不吭地躲闪着，推让着。
• While China represents huge scale as a market, it has fended off the entry of just about every major Western technology start-up.
  虽然中国市场规模庞大，但它阻止了几乎所有主要的西方科技初创企业进入市场。
• She fended off the difficult questions skilfully.
  她巧妙地避开了那些不好回答的问题。
• The strategy said that routine attacks should be fended off by companies.
  该战略指出，常规攻击应该由公司负责抵御。
• All offers were rejected, and truce envoys were fended off by fire.
  所有的军官都应该拒绝谈判，并用火力驱逐劝降军使。
• His intuition told him it was the wrong thing to do, and he was glad that sheet and tiller kept his hands occupied and fended off temptation.
  直觉告诉他不能那样做。他高兴风帆和船舵占住了他的手，挡住了这个诱惑。
• The researchers discovered that selectively killing off one or two of the responding cell types didn't affect how well a cancer-resistant mouse fended off the disease.
  研究人员发现，选择性杀死一到两种免疫应答细胞不会对小鼠抵抗癌症产生不良影响。
• Each time Jeff and Etirnne closed in on Katie, the powerful dolphin fended them off her hard, pointed beak.
  每一次，杰夫和安提雅接近凯蒂的时候，这力大无穷的海豚就用又尖又硬的嘴将他们挡开。
• An alligator was drawn by her cries but Blue fended it off, suffering numerous puncture wounds to his stomach.
  一直鳄鱼被鲁思的呼救声吸引过来，但是布卢将它击退后自己的腹部也伤痕累累。
• I fended the dog off with a stick.
  我用棍子把狗赶开。