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

• Animals kept on small farms also produce benefits, such as fending off predators and pests and fertilizing soil.
  动物饲养于小型农场也有一定的好处，诸如避开了掠食者、害虫并提供肥料。
• The team is also fending off the ravenous English tabloids, hungering for whatever Beckham tidbit they can find.
  球队还在努力挡开那些贪婪的英国小报，他们饥渴地想要找到任何和贝克汉姆有关的珍闻。
• 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。
• So it's been a very nervous day for the mainly Mozambicans and Zimbabweans who are here not sure whether they will be spending tonight in the camp or be fending for themselves.
  对于在这里的莫桑比克和津巴布韦的人民来说，今天是非常紧张的一天。他们还不确定今晚是在集中营里过还是要露宿街头自求多福。
• The FSA, after all, has faced criticism for failing to get tougher on bank bonuses and it is fending off proposals to put it under the Bank of England.
  毕竟，fsa因未能对银行奖金采取更严格的措施而遭到了批评，而且正奋力抵挡由英国央行（bankofengland）将其接管的建议。
• 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。
• 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。
• The utility model can be used for building and rebuilding top emersed strobes, in particular to tide fending and salty water sluice gate, and the investment is small.
  可用于新建和改造露顶式闸门，特别是挡潮、防咸闸闸门，投资不多，效益很大。
• 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。
• At the cat's advanced age, its immune system may not have been as adept at fending off influenza as that of a younger animal& similar to the vulnerability seen in aging humans.
  当猫猫衰老后，免疫系统将不如年轻时那样能很好的抵御流感&同老年人一样。