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。
• All offers were rejected, and truce envoys were fended off by fire.
  所有的军官都应该拒绝谈判，并用火力驱逐劝降军使。
• I fended off his sword thrust with my spear.
  他一刀砍来，我拿枪架住。
• The politician fended off the question.
  那位“政治家”避开了这个问题。
• He tried to kiss her but she fended him off.
  他想吻她，但她把他挡开了。
• The strategy said that routine attacks should be fended off by companies.
  该战略指出，常规攻击应该由公司负责抵御。
• The hordes of the uninvited have to be fended off by the intervention of the police.
  那些未被邀请的围观者不得不由警方出面阻拦。
• 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。
• They planted their own vegetables, caught their own fish, ground their own flour, fended off wild beasts, lived by the light of one kerosene lamp, and got soaked when it rained.
  他们要自己种菜、捕鱼、磨面粉、驱赶野兽、只靠一盏煤油灯照明，每当下雨时还浑身淋透。
• She fended off the difficult questions skilfully.
  她巧妙地避开了那些不好回答的问题。