tend
常考释义
1.[i]~ to do sth往往会;常常就to be likely to do sth or to happen in a particular way because this is what often or usually happens
Women tend to live longer than men.女人往往比男人长寿。
When I'm tired, I tend to make mistakes.我累了就容易出错。
It tends to get very cold here in the winter.这里冬天往往会很冷。
People tend to think that the problem will never affect them.人们往往认为这个问题绝不会影响到他们。
2.[i]~ (to/towards sth)趋向;走向;倾向;趋于to take a particular direction or often have a particular quality
His views tend towards the extreme.他的观点趋于偏激。
Prices have tended downwards over recent years.近年来物价趋于下降。
3.[t][i]照料;照管;护理to care for sb/sth
a shepherd tending his sheep照看羊的牧人
Doctors and nurses tended the injured.医生和护士护理受伤者。
well-tended gardens精心照料的花园
Ambulance crews were tending to the injured.救护车上的救护人员在照料受伤者。
4.[t]~ sth招待,侍候,照顾,照料(商店、酒吧等的顾客)to serve customers in a store, bar, etc.
He had a job tending bar in San Francisco.他在旧金山做酒吧服务员。
This was particularly effective in second- and third-tier cities where our factories tend to be among the most attractive places to work.
这在二三线城市特别有效,在这些地方,我们的工厂往往是最有吸引力的工作单位之一。
These parents also tend to believe in the effectiveness of spanking or believe the child is at fault in a given situation.
这些家庭的的父母认为在孩子犯错误的时候打屁股是一种有效方法。
Boat buyers tend to overestimate how often they'll set sail and minimize how much the boat will cost.
船买家偏向于高估他们每每将解缆,裁减多少船的费用。
Long methods and methods with a high number of paths are hard to understand and, interestingly, tend to correlate to defects.
一些长的方法和带有大量路径的方法是难以理解的,有趣的是,这类方法容易导致缺陷。
There are many difficult matters for me to tend to these days and your assistance in simplifying this one would be a real blessing to me.
近来有很多棘手的问题要我去办,您来协助解决这一问题对我真是幸事!
Things can tend to get a bit slippery, too, so if you didn't bring any walking boots I'd advise you to hire some from the office.
地面也可以变的有些滑,如果你没带步行靴,我劝你从办公室里租一些。
For decades, economists have been warning us that when we buy at a distance, we do not tend to take the cost of our own time into account.
几十年来,经济学家告诫我们,在我们将房子买得很远的时候,我们并没有将时间代价考虑进去。
We adults seem to be so engaged in doing things a certain way, we tend to forget that there are other ways to get things done.
我们成年人似乎非常乐于以特定的方式做事,却往往忘了还有别的方式也能达到目的。
If you tend to leak air at the sides, you will probably cease this annoying habit. Annoying for you, and for the audience as well.
如果你嘴角习惯性漏气,你可能通过这个口型纠正这种让你和观众都讨厌的习惯。
Minute for minute, all time-wasting eats up the same amount of time, but employers tend not to see it like that.
各种浪费时间的行为都是一分一秒地吞噬时间,似乎没有什么区别,而雇主却不这么看。
Women, in general, tend to not feel like exercising much and for those who were previously very active this can be a bit disconcerting.
一般来说,准妈妈们也都倾向于不像以前那么运动,对于那些之前精力充沛的女性们这可有点难受。
People tend to be in better spirits and get along better now than at any other time of the year.
人们倾向于更好的心情,将会比一年中其他时候更能友好相处。
I have watched him binding his bandages over the limb of a tree with the same care with which he would tend a child.
我看过他用绷带为一根树枝包扎,就像看护一个小孩一样。
Architects whose buildings fall down and doctors who maim their patients tend to suffer some sort of consequence.
建筑师建造的大楼倒塌,医生使病人致残,这些都会使他们承担某种不良后果。
He said borrowing is important in slower growing economies, since leveraged returns tend to be higher than straight cash deals.
张懿宸表示,在增长速度较慢的经济体中,举债经营很重要,因为借助杠杆的交易往往能比只使用自有资金的交易产生更高回报。
The British tend to be risk-averse culturally, he said, and perceived the Americans as unrealistic.
他说,英国人则习惯于规避风险,认为美国人不切实际。
From psychological aspect, the majority of children seem to tend to have an unfavorable attitude toward additional educational activities.
从心理上讲,大部分孩子似乎对额外的学习没有什么好感。
After reading Part 1, you could install Ganglia, as well as answer the monitoring questions that different user groups tend to ask.
学习了第1部分之后,您可能已经安装了Ganglia,也能回答不同用户组可能咨询的监视问题。
Frankly speaking, I'm a typical Chinese workaholic. I don't mind working late at night. Due to that, I tend to leave the office late.
坦率地说,我是一个典型的中国式工作狂。所以在晚上,我并不介意工作到很晚。我总是晚一点离开办公室。
"Online polls tend to be brutally honest, " said Simpson, noting that there was no one on the other end of the phone to deal with.
辛普森说:“人们在接受在线调查时往往很坦白,”不需要像打电话那样还得去应付对方。
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