| 单词 | tend |
| 释义 | tend I. intransitive verb 1. archaic < tend to the master's whistle — Shakespeare > 2. < you mind your business, and I'll tend to mine — Evelyn Barkins > 3. < never closed an eye watching and tending in his house — Walter Macken > 4. obsolete < the time invites you, go, your servants tend — Shakespeare > transitive verb 1. archaic < had I not four or five women once that tended me — Shakespeare > 2. chiefly dialect 3. a. < tended him and ministered to his wants like an angel — C.B.Fairbanks > < tending the destitute mothers and children — Winston Churchill > b. < a likely little citizen who … tends the family sheep — Irene Smith > c. < rice which has been specially planted and tended — J.G.Frazer > d. < tended his textile mills — T.D.Parrish > < quit to tend an open hearth — Time > < tend store > < tend bar > < tend the fire > 4. archaic < the stars that tend thy bidding — John Keats > • - tend out on II. dialect III. intransitive verb 1. a. < saw far in the north the misty outlines of the shore towards which they were tending — William Black > b. < the ideal toward which evolution continually tended — Roscoe Pound > < the symptoms — where they were tending, where they were bound to end — disturbed him — J.G.Cozzens > c. < the foot of each sail is tending aft at quite an angle — All Hands > 2. a. < modern hive design tends to simplicity — F.D.Smith & Barbara Wilcox > < many marine invertebrates tend towards transparency or a bluish coloration — W.H.Dowdeswell > b. < he tends to deny the moral content in human affairs — Norman Cousins > < painters tend to rejoice in the commonplace — David Sylvester > 3. < the reduction of reserve requirements will tend to ease business borrowing — Nation's Business > < not true that any advance in the scale of culture inevitably tends to the preservation of society — A.N.Whitehead > 4. of a ship intransitive verb 1. 2. < has a lifeline round him which is tended inboard — Manual of Seamanship > IV. < signaling with a flashlight the tend of the chain to the bridge — Chesley Wilson > |
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