| 正面 | 1041.tend 英 [tend]美 [tɛnd]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： 1. tend (v.1): a shortening of attend.2. tend (v.2): tend- => tend "move in a certain direction". 伸展到某个方向，但具体是哪个方向不确定，因此后面接to(towards)来指明具体的方向。vi. 趋向，倾向；照料，照顾vt. 照料，照管 例句： 1. We tend to meet up for lunch once a week.我们往往每周共进一次午餐。 tend 倾向，趋向来自拉丁语 tendere,延伸，拉长，词源同 attend,extend.引申词义倾向，趋向。 tendtend: English has two distinct words tend, but they come from the same ultimate source. Tend ‘look after’ [14] is short for attend, which goes back to Latin compound verb based on tendere ‘stretch’ – source of English tend ‘have an inclination’ [14]. Tendere itself was descended from the Indo-European base *ten- ‘stretch’ (source also of English tenant, tenuous, thin, tone, tune, etc), and its other contributions to English include contend [15], distend [14], extend, intend, portend [15], pretend, and also ostensible, tendency [17], tense, tension, and tent.=> contend, distend, extend, intend, ostensible, portend, pretend, tenant, tense, tent, tenterhooks, tenuous, thin, tone, tunetend (v.1)"to incline, to move in a certain direction," early 14c., from Old French tendre "stretch out, hold forth, hand over, offer" (11c.), from Latin tendere "to stretch, extend, make tense; aim, direct; direct oneself, hold a course" (see tenet).tend (v.2)"attend to," c. 1200, a shortening of Middle English atenden (see attend)." |