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

• But he was bad at growing and managing that business, fending off competitors, and adapting to a fast changing landscape.
  但是，他并不善于培养和管理业务，招架竞争对手，同时适应快速变化的环境。
• He is always spending his time fending with the neighbors.
  他总是与邻里们吵架。
• By lending their navies to rulers fending off invaders, they won special privileges to trade without paying tariffs.
  两个城市将海军租借给统治者来驱赶入侵者，因而赢得了进行贸易免交关税的特权。
• The two stood fronting each other, not noticing the stranger in the Grass-the boy pressing on, the girl fending off.
  两个人面对面站着，没有注意到草里躺着的外人，男的逼上前去，女的闪避着。
• 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。
• Politicians are very good at fending off awkward questions.
  政客们都很善于避开尴尬的问题。
• 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。
• We wish to do our part in fending off the dark clouds of terrorism, hatred, armed conflict, which in these last few months have grown particularly ominous on humanity's horizon.
  我们愿意贡献一己之力，消除恐怖暴力、仇恨和武装冲突的阴霾，这阴霾最近几个月以来在世界上变得特别灰暗沉重。
• But you're not just fending for yourself.
  但需要保护的不光是你一个人。
• 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。