fend

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vt. 击退, 保护, 供养

发音

US /fɛnd/

词形变化

fends 复数 fended fending fends 三单 fends fending 现在分词 fended 过去式 fended 过去分词

教材释义与例句

动词

照料；供养；力争

动词

谋生；保护；挡开；供养

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Self-support; taking care of one's own well-being.

    废旧 不可数
  2. 1.

    An enemy; fiend; the Devil.

    英国 方言
v.
  1. 1.

    To take care of oneself; to take responsibility for one's own well-being.

    不及物

    1990, Messrs Howley and Murphy, quoted in U.S. House Subcommittee on Labor Standards, Oversight hearing on the Federal Service Contract Act, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 40, Mr. Howley. They are telling him how much they will increase the reimbursement for the total labor cost. The contractor is left to fend as he can. Chairman Murphy. Obviously, he can’t fend for any more than the money he has coming in.

  2. 2.

    To defend, to take care of (typically construed with for); to block or push away (typically construed with off).

    挡住

    罕用

词汇关系

动词

同义词 2

stand resist

上位词 10

deal fight manage defend cope oppose contend grapple fight back get by

近义相关 1

stand

相关短语

fend off 挡开 fend for oneself 照顾自己,独自谋生 fend and prove fend away

词源

From Middle English fenden (“defend, fight, prevent”), shortening of defenden (“defend”), from Old French deffendre (Modern French défendre), from Latin dēfendō (“to ward off”), from dē- + *fendō (“hit, thrust”), from Proto-Italic *fendō, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen- (“strike, kill”).

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