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

• He dodged and fended off silently.
  他一声不吭地躲闪着，推让着。
• I fended off his sword thrust with my spear.
  他一刀砍来，我拿枪架住。
• Wilson successfully fended off an aggressive effort by ETS to grab market share away when it began in 2011 to promote the Graduate Record Examination ( GRE) as an alternative to the GMAT.
  威尔逊成功地抵挡住了ETS发起的市场份额抢夺战&2011年，ETS开始推广研究生入学考试（GRE），希望它能够代替GMAT考试。
• He fended off a jab at his chest.
  他避开了当胸一击。
• While China represents huge scale as a market, it has fended off the entry of just about every major Western technology start-up.
  虽然中国市场规模庞大，但它阻止了几乎所有主要的西方科技初创企业进入市场。
• His intuition told him it was the wrong thing to do, and he was glad that sheet and tiller kept his hands occupied and fended off temptation.
  直觉告诉他不能那样做。他高兴风帆和船舵占住了他的手，挡住了这个诱惑。
• She fended off the difficult questions skilfully.
  她巧妙地避开了那些不好回答的问题。
• The politician fended off the question.
  那位“政治家”避开了这个问题。
• 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。
• Fortunately, threats to European Monetary Union, so far, have been successfully fended off by the Herculean actions of the European Community assisted by the International Monetary Fund.
  所幸，由于欧洲共同体采取了大刀阔斧的行动，加上国际货币基金组织（imf）出手协助，欧洲货币联盟所遭遇的种种威胁，就目前来说已得到成功抵御。