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 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。
• 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。
• Politicians are very good at fending off awkward questions.
  政客们都很善于避开尴尬的问题。
• 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。
• He is always spending his time fending with the neighbors.
  他总是与邻里们吵架。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。