tend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. vt. & vi. 照料,照顾,伺候 look after; take care of
2. vi. 易于 be liable, apt, or inclined to act or think in a certain way
3. vi. 往,朝向 move or develop one's course in a certain direction

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

• ☆ 1350年左右进入英语，直接源自古法语的tendre，意为拉伸，团结，报价；最初源自古典拉丁语的tendere，意为目标，拉伸，延长。