tend

vi. 趋向，倾向；照料，照顾

vt. 照料，照管

vt.

照料，照顾；护理；照管，管理；

vi.

倾向（于），趋向（于）；伺侯，招待；关心；注意

变形

过去式：tended过去分词：tended现在分词：tending第三人称单数：tends

双语释义

vt. & vi. 照料,照顾,伺候 look after; take care of

vi. 易于 be liable, apt, or inclined to act or think in a certain way

vi. 往,朝向 move or develop one's course in a certain direction

英英释义

tend[ tend ]

v.

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

"She tends to be nervous before her lectures"

同义词：be givenleaninclinerun

have care of or look after

"She tends to the children"

manage or run

"tend a store"

词汇搭配

用作动词 (v.)

～+名词

tend the garden照料花园

tend the machines照料机器

tend one's sheep看管羊群

tend a shop照料一家商店

tend the sick护理病人

tend the stove照看炉子

～+副词

tend downward下降

tend eastward向东

tend upward上涨

tend affectionately热情地照顾

tend carefully仔细护理

tend faithfully真诚地接待

tend fervently热情地接待

tend materially物质上加以照顾

tend maternally慈爱地照顾

tend progressively逐渐倾向

～+介词

tend on〔upon〕 sb服侍某人

tend to dullness趋于乏味

tend to the same conclusion趋于同一结论

tend to one side倾向一方

tend to one's own affairs〔business〕管自己的事

tend towards趋向…

tend towards democracy倾向民主政治

tend towards jazz倾向于爵士乐

词组短语

tend to be倾向于；趋向于

tend towards走向；趋向；有助于；造成

tend to do倾向于做某事

tend on照料；招待

同近义词辨析

这组词都有“照料、培育”的意思，其区别是：

cherish强调抚育或爱抚。

nurse通常指对无力自顾的婴儿、病人等进行照料或护理。

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。

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。

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。

双语例句

用作动词(v.)

Weeds tend to displace other plants.
杂草越来越多，有取代其他植物之势。

During the interview, some interviewees tend to exaggerate.
面试时,有些面试者会有夸大的倾向。

He's a good salesman, but his offhand manner does tend to put people off.
他是个很好的推销员，可是他那随便的态度容易使人产生反感。

Prices are tending upward.
物价在上涨。

用作动词(v.)

Mother being ill, he had to tend her at home.
母亲病了,他得在家照料她。

You'd better tend to your own affairs.
你还是管好自己的事情吧!

权威例句

tend

tend: English has two distinct words tend, but they come from the same ultimate source. Tend ‘look after’ [14] is short for attend, which goes back to Latin compound verb based on tendere ‘stretch’ – source of English tend ‘have an inclination’ [14]. Tendere itself was descended from the Indo-European base *ten- ‘stretch’ (source also of English tenant, tenuous, thin, tone, tune, etc), and its other contributions to English include contend [15], distend [14], extend, intend, portend [15], pretend, and also ostensible, tendency [17], tense, tension, and tent.=> contend, distend, extend, intend, ostensible, portend, pretend, tenant, tense, tent, tenterhooks, tenuous, thin, tone, tune

tend (v.1)

"to incline, to move in a certain direction," early 14c., from Old French tendre "stretch out, hold forth, hand over, offer" (11c.), from Latin tendere "to stretch, extend, make tense; aim, direct; direct oneself, hold a course" (see tenet).

tend (v.2)

"attend to," c. 1200, a shortening of Middle English atenden (see attend).

1. Today we tend to go to the other extreme.

虽然现在我们倾向于走向另一个极端。

2. They tend, however, to be eccentric, and bigoted and they anger easily.

然而，他们却有一种偏执、顽固的倾向，并且很容易生气。

3. Although they pose no direct military threat, this attitude would tend to justify defense concerns and the development of weapons with which to confront them.

虽然他们没有摆出直接的军事威胁，这种态度将倾向为国防关注和对抗他们的武器的发展提供正当理由。

4. Individuals with this style tend to be very broad in their outwork and look at many alternatives. They focus on the long run.

具有这种风格的人趋向于具有广泛的看法和愿意考察更多的选择，他们关注决策的长期结果。

5. I tend to associate only with my coworkers and friends.

我倾向于只和我的同事还有朋友交往。

6. Still, we tend to treat those at low risk with lifestyle changes, while those at high risk get more intensive therapy.

我们仍然倾向于以生活方式的改变来处理那些低风险者，而让高风险人群接受更强化的治疗。

7. Whether blood related or not, people tend to gravitate to others, and eventually form a family unit.

不管是否有血缘关系，人们都趋向于相互吸引，并逐渐形成一个家族单位。

8. Now, we might want to think that these three groups should agree, or should tend towards or strive towards agreement.

好，我们可能会想这三个群体应该意见一致，至少应该倾向于或力争有相同的意见。

9. The woman stayed at home to tend her child.

那个妇女呆在家里照料她的孩子。

10. I tend to hurt others before they can hurt me.

我倾向于在别人伤害我之前先伤害他们。

11. And even if they try, they tend to get moved around by the water.

即使有人试着在这个地方游，他们也更趋向围绕着这个水域来游。

12. Recently, more and more people tend to … However, I.

最近，越来越多的人趋向于…，然而我认为…

13. They tend to think carefully of the plan and the risks involved in it.

他们总是倾向于仔细地思考计划以及做这件事所涉略到的风险。

14. I tend to be tolerant of most vices in life, and also in investing.

我倾向于容忍生活中的大部分不道德行为，在投资方面也是如此。

15. Basically , I tend to wait with implementing a standard until there is sufficient user request for it.

我基本上趋向于等到有足够的用户请求它时才会实现一种标准。

16. They tend to be Indian, work in the US and moved from IT/telecoms into consultancy.

他们往往是印度人，他们在美国工作，从IT/电信行业跳到咨询行业。

17. Most investors accept pitches only from entrepreneurs who come through an introduction, and they tend to finance people who have succeeded before, or who remind them of those who did.

大多数投资者只接受引见来的创业项目，他们倾向于投资的都是以前有过成功经历的，或者是能让他们想起某个成功者的人。

18. When it comes to money, we ask if you tend to save more or spend more?

当涉及到金钱问题的时候，我们要问的是你是否倾向于节省还是花的更多?。

19. English people tend to be like that.

英国人就有类似的倾向。

20. And in general, what you give you tend to get back from the world around you.

通常情况下，你给予他人的，也往往可以从你的周边的人那里得到。

21. They tend to be keen on volume of effort and overlook efficiency.

他们倾向于在乎努力的量而忽略了效率。 。

22. If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

假如你仅有锤子，你就倾向于把所有问题看成钉子。

23. Unhappy people tend to project their feelings of anger onto people they respect and love.

不幸福的人倾向于把他们愤怒发到他们尊敬和爱戴的人身上。

24. In some way, I agree with you that Singlish is like a dialect because we tend to mix our spoken English with some other languages.

在某种程度上，我同意你说的新加坡英语像一种方言，因为我们趋向于把我们所说的英语和一些其他语言混合起来。

25. We all tend to stay in our comfort zones.

我们都倾向于留在自己的舒适区域里。

26. But auctions require "if he thinks that she thinks that I think that he thinks" chains of reasoning that tend to have weak links.

不过，拍卖要求有“如果他认为她认为我认为他那么认为”的推理链条，而这种链条往往存在薄弱环节。

27. There are problems. One is that viruses tend to clump together, which hampers their performance.

这带来了一些问题，其一就是病毒倾向于簇集在一起而降低效能。

28. We choose certain colours to paint the walls of our homes because they tend to trigger certain responses.

我们选择特定的颜色来粉刷家中的墙壁，因为这种颜色倾向于引起我们的某种反应。

29. If the airplane has positive weathercock stability, and is truly symmetrical, then it will tend to fly in this condition.

如果飞机确实是对称的，并且具有正的风标稳定性，则飞机将倾向于在此状态飞行。

30. If the airplane has positive weathercock stability, and is truly symmetrical, then it will tend to fly in this condition.

如果飞机确实是对称的，并且具有正的风标稳定性，则飞机将倾向于在此状态飞行。

31. Focus groups tend to stifle exactly the diversity of behavior and opinion that designers must accommodate.

焦点小组倾向于抑制观念的多样性，而这些正是设计师所需要理解的。

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32. Naturally, we tend to use old representations in our new environments.

同样很自然的，在新的环境里，我们习惯于采用旧的表达方式。

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33. At small companies, for example, workers tend to have a broader set of responsibilities and more interpersonal contact; at huge companies, workers tend to be highly specialized and there are often multiple layers of bureaucracy.

例如，在小公司职责范围较广，工作人员之间有更多的接触。 而在较大的公司，分工非常细致，往往有层层的组织机构。 这样的环境变量如下

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34. Both beginners and experts tend over time to gravitate towards intermediacy.

新手的变化更快，新手和专家随着时间推移都会倾向于成为中间用户。

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35. When asked direct questions about the products they use, most tend to focus on low-level tasks or workarounds to product flaws.)

直接询问产品的使用感受，多数人倾向于关注次要的功能，以及解决产品缺陷的小窍门）。

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36. As with visual feedback, computer games tend to excel at positive audio feedback.

和视觉反馈一样，计算机游戏擅长于正面听觉反馈。

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37. Simply put, Mechanical-Age processes and representations tend to degrade user interactions in Information-Age products.

简而言之，机械时代的过程和表现方式会有损信息时代产品的用户交互。

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38. Because we have a hard time seeing how digital products will be used, we tend to rely too much on representations from the past, Mechanical Age.

因为要经历一个艰难的时期才能看到人们如何使用数字产品，所以我们过分地倾向于依赖在机械时代的表现方式。

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39. Programmers tend to view possibilities as being the same as probabilities.

程序员总是把可能发生的状况看做是必然要发生的事情来对待。

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40. The decisions people make tend to fall into two primary categories: important and unimportant.

人们所做的决策一般分为两大类，即重要的和不重要的。

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