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

• 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。
• 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。
• He fended off attacks and calls for his resignation-never lowering his guard.
  他击退了对他的攻击和要求他辞职的呼声从未放松警惕。
• A Finnish woman has fended off a bear attack by kicking the bear on the nose.
  芬兰日前上演了一场惊险的“人熊大战”。一名芬兰女子通过踢熊鼻子的方法，成功“击退”了一只雌性棕熊的攻击。
• He tried to kiss her but she fended him off.
  他想吻她，但她把他挡开了。
• 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。
• 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。
• She fended off the difficult questions skilfully.
  她巧妙地避开了那些不好回答的问题。
• I fended off his sword thrust with my spear.
  他一刀砍来，我拿枪架住。