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

• The hordes of the uninvited have to be fended off by the intervention of the police.
  那些未被邀请的围观者不得不由警方出面阻拦。
• 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 London exchange has fended off a barrage of potential acquirers in recent years, a tactic tacitly supported by British authorities eager to shield it from foreign regulation.
  近年来，伦敦交易所不断的拒绝潜在并购者的盛情。而这种缄默战术也得到了英国当权者的支持，他们希望借此能抵挡住外国规则的进攻。
• 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。
• A Finnish woman has fended off a bear attack by kicking the bear on the nose.
  芬兰日前上演了一场惊险的“人熊大战”。一名芬兰女子通过踢熊鼻子的方法，成功“击退”了一只雌性棕熊的攻击。
• That was really unsettling, but I fended off the taunts and jibes of the family good-humouredly.
  这真叫人不好意思，但我心平气和地顶住了全家人的嘲笑和奚落。
• So he fended me off at first.
  一开始他把我挡开了。
• 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。
• The niche is fended by a thick iron-fensing curtain, inside has already been tucked in with people, every one appears dedicated and does chanting in low volume.
  佛龛被一道粗实的铁网帘拦着，里面早已站满了人，个个低眉顺眼，口中低低地念诵着。
• The politician fended off the question.
  那位“政治家”避开了这个问题。