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

• But you're not just fending for yourself.
  但需要保护的不光是你一个人。
• 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。
• Today's figures suggest this may be happening, but economists say the world's second-largest economy cannot avoid the impact of a US slowdown, even if demand from other markets is so far fending off a fall in exports.
  如今的数字表明，这种情况可能正在发生。不过，经济学家表示，尽管其它市场的需求迄今为止防止了日本出口下滑，但作为全球第二大经济体，日本不可能避开美国经济减速的影响。
• 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。
• Fending off Tencent and Baidu
  击退腾讯和百度
• The impact from financial crisis to Beijing's commercial and suggestion for fending off the crisis
  金融危机对北京商业的影响及其应对建议
• We wish to do our part in fending off the dark clouds of terrorism, hatred, armed conflict, which in these last few months have grown particularly ominous on humanity's horizon.
  我们愿意贡献一己之力，消除恐怖暴力、仇恨和武装冲突的阴霾，这阴霾最近几个月以来在世界上变得特别灰暗沉重。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。