tend

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tend /tend/ S1 W1 verb

1 tend to do something OFTENif something tends to happen, it happens often and is likely to happen again 易于做某事，往往会发生某事

People tend to need less sleep as they get older.

随着年龄的增长，人需要的睡眠通常会减少。

My car tends to overheat in the summer.

我的车夏天经常会变得过热。

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tend to do something• Just beyond the crest they will tend to accumulate, for the effect of the wind is felt less here.• Dave tends to arrive late, so don't worry yet.• Recent studies show that girls tend to be better at languages than boys.• Modern planting tends to be done in large blocks, not for shelter, but as a crop in its own right.• However; the defiant child also tends to have a little better postural control than the overly sensitive child.• My father tends to interfere too much in other people's business.• Elizabeth Dole, on the other hand, tends to keep her own moderate views bottled up inside.• He died while tending to plague victims.• It tends to rain a lot during the winter.• Since costs tend to rise inexorably, attempts to stabilize public spending have essentially meant cuts in actual services.• The long-wave school tends to see historical phases more cyclically, and to encounter repetitions and similarities between cycles.• The problem with this model of car is that the gearbox tends to seize up.• Hodgskin expounded a minimalist conception of the state, insisting that government tended to shackle the energies and liberties of individuals.• Bill tends to talk too much when he's nervous.

2 (also tend to somebody/something) [transitiveT] old-fashionedLOOK AFTER something to look after someone or something 照顾，照料

Sofia was in the bedroom tending to her son.

索菲娅在卧室里照料她的儿子。

3 tend towards something IN GENERALto have one particular quality or feature more than others 有…的趋势；倾向于…

Charles tends towards obesity.

查尔斯有肥胖倾向。

4. tend bar especially American EnglishAmEWORK/DO WORK to work as a bartender 〔在酒吧〕接待顾客，做酒吧招待工作

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tend bar• After high school, Medville found herself looking at a future on welfare or tending bar.• In August she took a weekend job tending bar.• He pays the rent by tending bar and working for a couple of unlicensed moving companies.• Albert was tending bar, but the thirsty were three-deep in front of him.• Jack, though he had tended bar in his time, was not required to do manual labor.• Scott tended bar part-time while going to college.

5 [intransitiveI always + adverbadv/prepositionprep] formalDEVELOP to move or develop in a particular direction 走向；趋于，趋向

tend upwards/downwards

Interest rates are tending upwards.

利率趋于上涨。

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tend• Jose was outside tending the garden when the fire broke out.• Jose Aburto Cortez, 57, was outside tending the garden when the fire broke out.• The process of distillation tends to alter the aroma to a degree.• Departments with an eye to the ratings tend to appoint established researchers with proven records, rather than younger, unpublished candidates.• Smaller, start-up companies last year tended to be in the business of technology.• It tends to be the brighter kids who get all the teacher's attention.• In other words, your transcription tends to become more phonemic without being systematically so.• Young children tend to get sick more often than adults.• What tends to happen is that the poorest families end up in the worst housing.• First, he tends to have relatively better visual-spatial abilities.• Mom was usually busy tending to my younger sisters.• Such people tend to perform marginal tasks and to enter and leave the workforce at random intervals.

Origin tend

1. (1300-1400) Old French tendre “to stretch”, from Latin tendere

2. (1100-1200) attend

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