tend的详尽意思

1. 易于，往往会
2. 有助于
3. 照顾，照料，照管，护理，侍候
4. 走向，趋向（于），倾向
5. 【海】照料（缆绳，锚链）以免纠缠
6. 注意，关心

1. 倾向，趋向，目的性

1. have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined;

   "She tends to be nervous before her lectures"
   "These dresses run small"
   "He inclined to corpulence"
   

2. have care of or look after;

   "She tends to the children"
   

3. manage or run;

   "tend a store"
   

1.往往会；经常就
If somethingtends to happen, it usually happens or it often happens.

tend的反义词

e.g. A problem for manufacturers is that lighter carstend 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。
e.g. In older age groups women predominate because mentend 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。

2.倾向于，容易表现出(某种特性)
If youtend towards a particular characteristic, you often display that characteristic.

e.g. Artistic and intellectual peopletend towards left-wing views.
搞艺术的人和知识分子容易持“左倾”观点。

3.个人认为;个人觉得
You can say that youtend to think something when you want to give your opinion, but do not want it to seem too forceful or definite.

e.g. Itend 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.护理;照料;照看
If youtend someone or something, you do what is necessary to keep them in a good condition or to improve their condition.

e.g. 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。
e.g. 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.照顾;照管;伺候
If youtend to someone or something, you pay attention to them and deal with their problems and needs.

e.g. In our culture, girls are brought up totend to the needs of others...
在我们的文化里，女孩从小就学着照料别人。
e.g. She hurried away to pour more coffee andtend to the grill.
她匆忙走开，去添加咖啡和照看烤架。

1. The river here tends eastward.
   这条河从这里向东流。
2. At junction take the road that tends west.
   到交叉路口时,走朝西的那条路。
3. Prices are tending upwards.
   物价趋涨。

1. I tend to go to bed earlier during the winter.
   我在冬天常睡得比较早。
2. He tends to speak too quickly.
   他往往说话太快。
3. People tend to get fat when they grow older.
   人们年纪大时往往会发胖。
4. It tends to become very cold at night now.
   现在晚上变得很冷。
5. The world population tends to increase more and more.
   世界人口日趋增加。
6. He tends to get very angry when people disagree with him.
   当有人与他意见不一致时他很容易生气。
7. Too much smoking tends to cause cancer.
   吸烟过多容易得癌症。
8. This measures tend to improve working conditions.
   这些措施有助于改善劳动条件。

1. She tended her husband carefully during his illness.
   她丈夫生病期间,她无微不至地照顾他。
2. The doctors and nurses in this hospital tend the sick patiently.
   这个医院的医生和护士耐心地护理病人。
3. The shepherd tends his sheep.
   牧羊人看管他的羊群。
4. Who will tend the garden while you are on vacation?
   你休假期间谁照料花园?
5. He tends a shop for his father.
   他为父亲照料一家商店。
6. The old workers tend the machines carefully.
   老工人们细心地照料机器。
7. She was tending the stove as she talked to him.
   她一边看着炉子,一边跟他谈话。
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8. Nothing could saved the boy even if he had been tended without delay.
   即使当时那男孩得到及时照护,他的生命也无法挽救了。
9. It had evidently not been tended since his departure.
   很明显在他离开后,没人照料它。

• You got to wait a little while. Then I'll tend to you.

  出自：W. Faulkner

• The path tends west around small mountains.

  出自：P. Matthiessen

tend to, mind

两者的共同意思是“注意”“留心”。它们之间的区别在于：

1.mind多指有可能会发生意外的事,警告某人要小心。

2.tend to虽有“留心”的意思,但它含有“服侍”的意味。 例如:

She tended to her affairs carefully.她细心照料她的事务。

She has many maids tending to her.她有这么多的侍女伺候着她。

We employed a girl to tend to the children for a few hours each day.我们雇了一个女孩,每天照料孩子们几个小时。

tend, attend, mind, watch

这组词都有“照料(某人或某物)”的意思,在含义上略有不同：attend侧重“服侍使其更舒服”; mind侧重“保护其不出意外,不受损害”; tend侧重“注意某事使其正常运转”; watch侧重“预先做好防止发生危险的准备”,有连续性或专职性。例如:

He attended her through her illness.

她生病期间他一直照顾着她。

There was nobody left to mind the shop.

没人留下看守店铺。

A farmer is tending his sheep.

农夫在照看羊群。

There was a policeman watching the pri- soner outside the house and making sure he didn't escape.

有位警察在监狱外监视那个犯人以 防他逃跑。

nurse，tend，foster，cultivate，cherish

这些动词均含“照料、培育”之意。

nurse通常指对无力自顾的婴儿、病人等进行照料或护理。

tend指出于责任心、博爱心而不是私人感情去对人或物进行照顾。

foster指对孩子的关心、鼓励、供养及抚养其成长；也指鼓励、促进事物的增长与发展。

cultivate具体意义指耕耘、培育植物；抽象意义指培养兴趣或向往的理想事物。

cherish强调抚育或爱抚。