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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He moves slowly and deftly, charmingly fending off a fan keen to tell him about the time she saw him playing tennis.
  霍夫曼走路慢而灵巧，潇洒地制止了一名粉丝继续诉说某次看到他打网球的事情。
• 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。
• 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。
• Far from undermining the department's position, the freedoms unleashed by the market economy have made personnel control more essential than ever in fending off rivals for power.
  市场经济所释放的自由，非但没有削弱该部门的地位，反而令人事控制在权力角逐中变得空前重要。
• 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 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。
• 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。