| 单词 | tend |
| 释义 | tend /tend/ ●●● S1 W1 verb 1 tend to do something OFTENif something tends to happen, it happens often and is likely to happen again 易于做某事，往往会发生某事 People tend to need less sleep as they get older. 随着年龄的增长，人需要的睡眠通常会减少。 My car tends to overheat in the summer. 我的车夏天经常会变得过热。2 (also tend to somebody/something) [transitive] old-fashionedLOOK AFTER something to look after someone or something 照顾，照料 Sofia was in the bedroom tending to her son. 索菲娅在卧室里照料她的儿子。3 tend towards something IN GENERALto have one particular quality or feature more than others 有…的趋势；倾向于… Charles tends towards obesity. 查尔斯有肥胖倾向。4. tend bar especially American EnglishWORK/DO WORK to work as a bartender 〔在酒吧〕接待顾客，做酒吧招待工作5 [intransitive always + adverb/preposition] formalDEVELOP to move or develop in a particular direction 走向；趋于，趋向tend upwards/downwards Interest rates are tending upwards. 利率趋于上涨。→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpustend• Jose was outside tending the garden when the fire broke out.• Jose Aburto Cortez, 57, was outside tending the garden when the fire broke out.• The process of distillation tends to alter the aroma to a degree.• Departments with an eye to the ratings tend to appoint established researchers with proven records, rather than younger, unpublished candidates.• Smaller, start-up companies last year tended to be in the business of technology.• It tends to be the brighter kids who get all the teacher's attention.• In other words, your transcription tends to become more phonemic without being systematically so.• Young children tend to get sick more often than adults.• What tends to happen is that the poorest families end up in the worst housing.• First, he tends to have relatively better visual-spatial abilities.• Mom was usually busy tending to my younger sisters.• Such people tend to perform marginal tasks and to enter and leave the workforce at random intervals.Origin tend 1. (1300-1400) Old French tendre “to stretch”, from Latin tendere2. (1100-1200) attendtend verbChinese happens tends it often Corpus happen, to something if |
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