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

• Wal-Mart, the US retail giant known for fending off organised labour in its home market, has completed collective bargaining agreements with unions in two Chinese cities.
  以在本国市场拒绝劳工组织闻名的美国零售巨头沃尔玛（wal-mart），在中国两座城市与工会签订了集体合同。
• 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 had thus far succeeded in fending off my conversational sallies.
  他迄今为止一直不为我说的俏皮话所动。
• The same hormones that boost your body's supply of available energy in fending off an impending threat also tell your brain that you need to replenish that energy once it's used up.
  一个临近威胁出现时保护中加大身体能量供应量的荷尔蒙也用于告诉你一旦的大脑当能量用尽时就需要恢复精力。
• The king of Pop was also the king of profligacy, spending his final years fending off creditors in spite of prodigious earnings over four decades.
  流行音乐之王同时也是恣意挥霍之王，尽管40年来收入惊人，但他生命的最后几年却是在躲避债主的日子里度过的。
• Lu said that at first it was difficult bringing her back to normal life because she resisted showering, wearing clothes or using chopsticks, fending him off and shouting and crying.
  KsorLulong还指出，在最初的几天里似乎很难让女儿回到正常的生活中来，因为她拒绝洗澡，不穿衣服，不使用筷子，同时还不让父亲靠近自己并且不停地哭喊。
• 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。
• He is always spending his time fending with the neighbors.
  他总是与邻里们吵架。
• 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。
• 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。