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Tend Tending Verb 动词   [V N Intransitive Sth

The word "tend" has multiple meanings. As a verb, it can mean to be likely to do or happen something regularly, to lean or incline in a direction, or to care for or look after someone or something. It can also be used in phrases like "tend to" or "tend towards" to express a likelihood or inclination.

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1
[VERB 动词]往往会;经常就 If something tends to happen, it usually happens or it often happens.
  [V to-inf]
  • A problem for manufacturers is that lighter cars tend to be noisy...

    制造商们遇到的一个问题是,重量较轻的汽车往往噪音大。

  • In older age groups women predominate because men tend to die younger...

    在老年群体里女性占大多数,因为男性通常不易高寿。

  • They tend to buy cheap processed foods like canned chicken and macaroni.

    他们往往会买便宜的加工食品,像鸡肉罐头和通心粉之类的。

2
[VERB 动词]倾向于,容易表现出(某种特性) If you tend towards a particular characteristic, you often display that characteristic.
  [V towards n]
  [Also V to n]
  • Artistic and intellectual people tend towards left-wing views.

    搞艺术的人和知识分子容易持“左倾”观点。

3
[VERB 动词]个人认为;个人觉得 You can say that you tend to think something when you want to give your opinion, but do not want it to seem too forceful or definite.
  [V to-inf]
  [vagueness]
  • I tend to think that members of parliament by and large do a good job.

    我个人觉得,议会议员总体上工作还是不错的。

4
[VERB 动词]护理;照料;照看 If you tend someone or something, you do what is necessary to keep them in a good condition or to improve their condition.
  [V n]
  [FORMAL 正式]
  • For years he tended her in her painful illness...

    多年来她一直受到病痛的折磨,都是他在照料。

  • He tends the flower beds and evergreens that he has planted in the driveway.

    他打理着他栽在车道两旁的花坛和常青树。

5
[VERB 动词]照顾;照管;伺候 If you tend to someone or something, you pay attention to them and deal with their problems and needs.
  [V to n]
  • In our culture, girls are brought up to tend to the needs of others...

    在我们的文化里,女孩从小就学着照料别人。

  • She hurried away to pour more coffee and tend to the grill.

    她匆忙走开,去添加咖啡和照看烤架。


Oxford tend ★ / tend ; NAmE tend / verb 1 ★ [intransitive ] tendto do sth to be likely to do sth or to happen in a particular way because this is what often or usually happens 往往会;常常就 ◆ Women tend to live longer than men. 女人往往比男人长寿。 ◆ When I'm tired, I tend to make mistakes. 我累了就容易出错。 ◆ It tends to get very cold here in the winter. 这里冬天往往会很冷。 ◆ People tend to thinkthat the problem will never affect them. 人们往往认为这个问题绝不会影响到他们。 ☞language bank at
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2 [intransitive ] tend(to/towards sth) to take a particular direction or often have a particular quality 趋向;走向;倾向;趋于 ◆ His views tend towards the extreme. 他的观点趋于偏激。 ◆ Prices have tended downwards over recent years. 近年来物价趋于下降。 3 [transitive ,  intransitive ] to care for sb/sth 照料;照管;护理 tendsb/sth ◆ a shepherd tending his sheep 照看羊的牧人 ◆ Doctors and nurses tended the injured. 医生和护士护理受伤者。 ◆ well-tended gardens 精心照料的花园 tendto sb/sth ◆ Ambulance crews were tending to the injured. 救护车上的救护人员在照料受伤者。 4 [transitive ] tendsth ( NAmE) to serve customers in a store, bar, etc. 招待,侍候,照顾,照料(商店、酒吧等的顾客) ◆ He had a job tending barin San Francisco. 他在旧金山做酒吧服务员。 tend tends tended tending
tend / tend ; NAmE tend /
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tendtend /tend/ ●●● S1 W1 verb
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1tend to do something if something tends to happen, it happens often and is likely to happen again:  People tend to need less sleep as they get older. My car tends to overheat in the summer.2 (also tend to somebody/something) [transitive] old-fashioned to look after someone or something:  Sofia was in the bedroom tending to her son.3tend towards something to have one particular quality or feature more than others:  Charles tends towards obesity.4tend bar especially American English to work as a bartender5[intransitive always + adverb/preposition] formal to move or develop in a particular directiontend upwards/downwards Interest rates are tending upwards.
WDF

tend

[tend]tended, tending, tends

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Spoken:

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tended[1317] tending[1346] tends[3152]
趋向(41%),照管(23%),照料(23%),易于(11%),朝向(2%)
vt.照料,照管
vi.趋向,倾向;照料,照顾

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