Tend
[tend] or [tɛnd]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) manage or run; 'tend a store'.
(verb.) have care of or look after; 'She tends to the children'.
(verb.) 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'.
詹尼弗編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To make a tender of; to offer or tender.
(v. t.) To accompany as an assistant or protector; to care for the wants of; to look after; to watch; to guard; as, shepherds tend their flocks.
(v. t.) To be attentive to; to note carefully; to attend to.
(v. i.) To wait, as attendants or servants; to serve; to attend; -- with on or upon.
(v. i.) To await; to expect.
(a.) To move in a certain direction; -- usually with to or towards.
(a.) To be directed, as to any end, object, or purpose; to aim; to have or give a leaning; to exert activity or influence; to serve as a means; to contribute; as, our petitions, if granted, might tend to our destruction.
校對:维多利亚
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. Watch, guard, keep, protect, attend, accompany, nurse, take care of, wait on.
v. n. [1]. Attend, wait, serve, be attendant.[2]. Incline, lean, verge, trend, make, be directed.[3]. Conduce, contribute, lead.
弗洛整理
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Nurture, guard, watch, manage, serve, keep, aid, incline, verge, lean, aim,contribute, conduce, attend,[See PERTINACITY]
ANT:Betray, desert, abandon
艾莉森編輯
解釋/意思:
v.i. to stretch aim at move or incline in a certain direction: to be directed to any end or purpose: to contribute.—n. Ten′dency direction object or result to which anything tends: inclination: drift.
v.t. to accompany as assistant or protector: to take care of to be attentive to to wait upon so as to execute.—ns. Ten′dance (Spens.) state of expectation: (Shak.) act of waiting or tending also persons attendant; Ten′der a small vessel that attends a larger with stores &c.: a carriage attached to locomotives to supply fuel and water.
汉丽埃塔整理
例句/造句/用法:
- A struggle for existence inevitably follows from the high rate at which all organic beings tend to increase. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Homologous parts tend to vary in the same manner, and homologous parts tend to cohere. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- If we are discouraged it is because we tend to identify statecraft with that official government which is merely one of its instruments. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- And what numberless and powerful causes tend to destroy these rare natures! 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Short of use made of them, they tend to segregate into a peculiar world of their own. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Sir, said Mr. Helstone, collecting all his dignity--sir, the great knowledge of man is to know himself, and the bourne whither his own steps tend. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The action and reaction thus constantly at work, tend to give accelerating impulse to invention, and are continually enlarging its sphere of operations. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- Mr. Crawley had tended that otherwise friendless bedside. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The shepherds that tended them were the very pictures of Joseph and his brethren I have no doubt in the world. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- But in music there was nothing which tended to that good which you are now seeking. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- I make no allowance for innumerable feelings and circumstances that may have all tended to good. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- While the benefits derived were not directly pecuniary in their nature, they were such as tended to strengthen commercially the position of the rightful owners of the patents. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Upon his return to England, he was led to make a number of experiments, all of which tended to confirm the observation. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- I took him to my own room, had a good bed made for him, dressed his wounds, and tended him myself, until he got fairly on his feet again. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Hence, the canon of Natura non facit saltum, which every fresh addition to our knowledge tends to confirm, is on this theory intelligible. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Play tends to reproduce and affirm the crudities, as well as the excellencies, of surrounding adult life. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- It likewise tends to increase the direct action of the physical conditions of life, in relation to the constitution of each organism. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- But the withdrawal alters the stimuli operating, and tends to make them more consonant with the needs of the organism. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being which she tends. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- On the contrary, it tends to suppress them, just because they are deviations from what is current. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The increase of stock, which raises wages, tends to lower profit. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The air in the long arm is pressing upon the mercury in that arm, and is tending to force it up the short arm. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- In tending her patient, and in thinking of the wonderful escapes of the day before, her second day passed away not too slowly with Amelia. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Dobbin was already in the room, good-naturedly tending his patient of the night before. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Looking at his face, I longed to know his exact opinions, and at last I put a question tending to elicit them. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Near the bottom of the apparatus is a bellows O, which contains a spring tending to keep the lever N, with which it is connected by a rod X, in the position shown. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- But the stronger the current through the coil, the stronger will be the force tending to rotate the coil, and hence the less effective will be the hindrance of the twisting string. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- She had to draw upon this thought, as upon some fiery stimulant, to keep up her part in the scene toward which Rosedale was too frankly tending. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
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