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

• They planted their own vegetables, caught their own fish, ground their own flour, fended off wild beasts, lived by the light of one kerosene lamp, and got soaked when it rained.
  他们要自己种菜、捕鱼、磨面粉、驱赶野兽、只靠一盏煤油灯照明，每当下雨时还浑身淋透。
• Wilson successfully fended off an aggressive effort by ETS to grab market share away when it began in 2011 to promote the Graduate Record Examination ( GRE) as an alternative to the GMAT.
  威尔逊成功地抵挡住了ETS发起的市场份额抢夺战&2011年，ETS开始推广研究生入学考试（GRE），希望它能够代替GMAT考试。
• He fended off attacks and calls for his resignation-never lowering his guard.
  他击退了对他的攻击和要求他辞职的呼声从未放松警惕。
• She fended off the difficult questions skilfully.
  她巧妙地避开了那些不好回答的问题。
• But I fended off the taunts and jibes of the family good humouredly.
  但我心平气和地顶住了家人的嘲笑和奚落。
• 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。
• With a big photo on the front cover, the capital letters fended off the girl's face.
  一张大大的照片在封面上，那些字挡住了女孩的脸。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。