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

• Fortunately, threats to European Monetary Union, so far, have been successfully fended off by the Herculean actions of the European Community assisted by the International Monetary Fund.
  所幸，由于欧洲共同体采取了大刀阔斧的行动，加上国际货币基金组织（imf）出手协助，欧洲货币联盟所遭遇的种种威胁，就目前来说已得到成功抵御。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He tried to kiss her but she fended him off.
  他想吻她，但她把他挡开了。
• In Lima, China fended off calls for electronic monitoring of its emissions-reduction plans as part of the United Nations process.
  在利马，中国拒绝了对在联合国的程序中对其减排计划进行电子监控的呼吁。
• The politician fended off the question.
  那位“政治家”避开了这个问题。
• 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。
• 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。