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

• The impact from financial crisis to Beijing's commercial and suggestion for fending off the crisis
  金融危机对北京商业的影响及其应对建议
• 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 team is also fending off the ravenous English tabloids, hungering for whatever Beckham tidbit they can find.
  球队还在努力挡开那些贪婪的英国小报，他们饥渴地想要找到任何和贝克汉姆有关的珍闻。
• He moves slowly and deftly, charmingly fending off a fan keen to tell him about the time she saw him playing tennis.
  霍夫曼走路慢而灵巧，潇洒地制止了一名粉丝继续诉说某次看到他打网球的事情。
• 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。
• The first annual innovation monitor by the EEF manufacturing organisation showed manufacturers were fending off competition from lower cost competitors with innovations designed to better meet customers 'needs.
  由制造业组织EEF发布的首份年度创新监测报告显示，制造商正通过旨在更好满足客户需求的创新，来抵御低成本对手的竞争。
• He is always spending his time fending with the neighbors.
  他总是与邻里们吵架。
• Today's figures suggest this may be happening, but economists say the world's second-largest economy cannot avoid the impact of a US slowdown, even if demand from other markets is so far fending off a fall in exports.
  如今的数字表明，这种情况可能正在发生。不过，经济学家表示，尽管其它市场的需求迄今为止防止了日本出口下滑，但作为全球第二大经济体，日本不可能避开美国经济减速的影响。
• In the past I chalked this up to good, old-fashioned denial: fending off the headache-inducing obligations and demands of the season is a fairly universal impulse.
  过去，我认为有个很好的不时髦的拒绝方式：躲开头疼的债务，躲开对这个季节的需求。这是一种相当普遍的本能。
• 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。