fending

英 [ˈfendɪŋ]

美 [ˈfendɪŋ]

v.  照料，照顾(自己)
fend的现在分词

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 first annual innovation monitor by the EEF manufacturing organisation showed manufacturers were fending off competition from lower cost competitors with innovations designed to better meet customers 'needs.
  由制造业组织EEF发布的首份年度创新监测报告显示，制造商正通过旨在更好满足客户需求的创新，来抵御低成本对手的竞争。
• Touchscreen power-ups will let players interact with zombies directly, instead of just fending them off by setting up defenses like pea shooters.
  触屏充能的功能让玩家能够更直接地与僵尸接触，而不是不停地放置像豌豆射手这样的植物来进行防御。
• But you're not just fending for yourself.
  但需要保护的不光是你一个人。
• The two stood fronting each other, not noticing the stranger in the Grass-the boy pressing on, the girl fending off.
  两个人面对面站着，没有注意到草里躺着的外人，男的逼上前去，女的闪避着。
• He had thus far succeeded in fending off my conversational sallies.
  他迄今为止一直不为我说的俏皮话所动。
• Lu said that at first it was difficult bringing her back to normal life because she resisted showering, wearing clothes or using chopsticks, fending him off and shouting and crying.
  KsorLulong还指出，在最初的几天里似乎很难让女儿回到正常的生活中来，因为她拒绝洗澡，不穿衣服，不使用筷子，同时还不让父亲靠近自己并且不停地哭喊。
• Wal-Mart, the US retail giant known for fending off organised labour in its home market, has completed collective bargaining agreements with unions in two Chinese cities.
  以在本国市场拒绝劳工组织闻名的美国零售巨头沃尔玛（wal-mart），在中国两座城市与工会签订了集体合同。
• By lending their navies to rulers fending off invaders, they won special privileges to trade without paying tariffs.
  两个城市将海军租借给统治者来驱赶入侵者，因而赢得了进行贸易免交关税的特权。
• The king of Pop was also the king of profligacy, spending his final years fending off creditors in spite of prodigious earnings over four decades.
  流行音乐之王同时也是恣意挥霍之王，尽管40年来收入惊人，但他生命的最后几年却是在躲避债主的日子里度过的。
• As soon as you feel that crazy sense of walking on eggshells, fending off narcissistic rage, stop.
  一旦你感到为了抵挡自恋者的愤怒而如履薄冰时，停下。