fends

英 [fendz]

美 [fendz]

v. 照料，照顾(自己)
fend的第三人称单数

VERB 照料，照顾(自己)
If you have to fend for yourself, you have to look after yourself without relying on help from anyone else.
1. The woman and her young baby had been thrown out and left to fend for themselves.
  这个女人和她年幼的婴儿被赶了出来，无人照管。
PHRASAL VERB 挡开，避开(问题或人)
If you fend off unwanted questions, problems, or people, you stop them from affecting you or defend yourself from them, but often only for a short time and without dealing with them completely.
1. He looked relaxed and determined as he fended off questions from the world's Press...
  他回避各国媒体的提问时显得轻松而果决。
2. He had struggled to pay off creditors but couldn't fend them off any longer.
  他曾想方设法还债主的钱，但却再也躲不过他们了。
PHRASAL VERB 挡住，抵挡(攻击)
If you fend off someone who is attacking you, you use your arms or something such as a stick to defend yourself from their blows.
1. He raised his hand to fend off the blow.
  他抬起手来抵挡那一拳。

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Gates fends off questions about Microsoft, though he says-contrary to persistent speculation-that he is not about to step back in to run it as Steve Jobs once returned to revive Apple.
盖茨不愿回答有关微软的问题。不过他说，与一直以来外界的猜测相反，他无意像当年史蒂夫•乔布斯（SteveJobs）回去重振苹果那样再度执掌微软。
The other roach harasses the mineral line at the Terran expansion, but reinforcements are unable to reach it as the bunker fends off the trickle of Zerg forces coming in.
另一只小强骚扰着人族分矿矿区，不过由于地堡的火力，虫族的增援部队无法抵达。
China fends off Obama pressure over North Korea.
奥巴马要求中国制裁朝鲜遭到拒绝。
People of a batch of another batch of inside Shanghaiguan leave his native place, cadge all the way to district extensive northeast earth fends.
一批又一批关内人背井离乡，一路乞讨到地域辽阔的东北大地谋生。