| 单词 | tend |
| 释义 | tend (once / 35 pages) 1v 2v If you manage, run, or work at a store, you can say you tend it. If you tend the bar in a restaurant, for example, you serve drinks, dry glasses, and fill dishes with pretzels. You can also say you tend something if you care for it. You have to tend a vegetable garden, for example, if you expect to harvest more vegetables than weeds. If you are inclined to do something, then you tend to do that thing. You might tend to let your homework go until the last minute and then stay up all night to get it done — probably not the most efficient way to go about it. WORD FAMILYtend: tended, tendency, tender, tending, tends+/tended: untended/tendency: tendencies, tendencious, tendentious/tendentious: tendentiously, tendentiousness/tender: tendered, tenderer, tenderest, tendering, tenderise, tenderize, tenderized, tenderly, tenderness, tenders/tenderise: tenderisation, tenderised, tenderiser/tenderize: tenderization, tenderizer, tenderizes, tenderizing/tenderizer: tenderizers/tenderness: tendernesses/tending: tendings USAGE EXAMPLESWhile we need to move around a bit to complete the tasks of daily living, in modern life we tend not to move very much. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) Mr. Berger’s methods, influenced by the ideas of Walter Benjamin, tended to attract either ardent admiration or seething criticism, with little in between. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Many Strain-Japan families straddle their time between working jobs close to St. Louis and tending to family farms. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 v have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined 2She tends to be nervous before her lectures Syn|Hypo|Hyper be given, incline, lean, run take kindly to be willing or inclined to accept sufferbe given to gravitatemove toward be have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun) 1v have care of or look after She tends to the children Hypo|Hyper garden work in the garden shepherdtend as a shepherd, as of sheep or goats landscapedo landscape gardening attend, look, see, take care take charge of or deal with 2v manage or run tend a store Hypo|Hyper stoke stir up or tend; of a fire mind, take care be in charge of or deal with |
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