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

• Each time Jeff and Etirnne closed in on Katie, the powerful dolphin fended them off her hard, pointed beak.
  每一次，杰夫和安提雅接近凯蒂的时候，这力大无穷的海豚就用又尖又硬的嘴将他们挡开。
• With a big photo on the front cover, the capital letters fended off the girl's face.
  一张大大的照片在封面上，那些字挡住了女孩的脸。
• I fended off his sword thrust with my spear.
  他一刀砍来，我拿枪架住。
• But I fended off the taunts and jibes of the family good humouredly.
  但我心平气和地顶住了家人的嘲笑和奚落。
• All offers were rejected, and truce envoys were fended off by fire.
  所有的军官都应该拒绝谈判，并用火力驱逐劝降军使。
• The London exchange has fended off a barrage of potential acquirers in recent years, a tactic tacitly supported by British authorities eager to shield it from foreign regulation.
  近年来，伦敦交易所不断的拒绝潜在并购者的盛情。而这种缄默战术也得到了英国当权者的支持，他们希望借此能抵挡住外国规则的进攻。
• The strategy said that routine attacks should be fended off by companies.
  该战略指出，常规攻击应该由公司负责抵御。
• The politician fended off the question.
  那位“政治家”避开了这个问题。
• 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。
• That was really unsettling, but I fended off the taunts and jibes of the family good-humouredly.
  这真叫人不好意思，但我心平气和地顶住了全家人的嘲笑和奚落。