基本释义
- v.
- 照料( tend的过去式和过去分词 ); 照顾; 招待; 侍候
实用例句
Jay had always tended to keep his girlfriends at a distance.
杰伊一贯和他的女朋友们保持距离。
柯林斯例句
I tended to mistrust my emotions and intellectualize everything.
我往往不相信自己的情感，倾向于把一切事物都理智化。
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The jockey said he tended to flick horses with the whip.
骑手说他经常会用鞭子抽马。
柯林斯例句
For years he tended her in her painful illness.
多年来她一直受到病痛的折磨，都是他在照料。
柯林斯例句
Daytime television tended to remind her too forcefully of her own situation.
日间电视节目往往使她深刻地认识到自身的境况。
柯林斯例句
In the mass production era multinational firms tended to centralize their operations.
在大规模生产的时代，跨国公司往往实行集权化经营。
柯林斯例句
The President tended to regard the Church as an anachronism.
总统常常认为教会属于落伍之物。
柯林斯例句
Scientists have tended to skate over the difficulties of explaining dreams.
科学家们往往回避释梦的难题。
柯林斯例句
They've tended to farm out work to consultants.
他们经常把业务分包给顾问。
柯林斯例句
However, traders tended to discount the rumor.
然而，商人往往不相信这一谣传。
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His poetry tended towards a dreamy romanticism.
他的诗歌带有一种梦幻般的浪漫色彩。
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She tended to finish dancing with a flourish.
她往往以夸张的姿势结束舞蹈。
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He tended to stutter, which tried her patience.
他老结巴，这叫她难以忍受。
柯林斯例句
carefully tended lawns set in a girdle of trees
树木环绕、精心修整的草坪
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His blood pressure tended to stabilize.
他的血压趋向稳定.
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真题例句
Disputes were characterized by intense verbal ( 言语上的) aggression, tended to be repeated and not resolved and made men, more than women, extremely angry.
出自-2011年12月阅读原文The biggest increases tended to be in brands that were popular with young smokers.
2016年6月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section AThe unpleasant voices have tended to dominate our perceptions," says Daniel Tichenor, a political science professor at the University of Oregon.
出自-2011年6月阅读原文But their results also indicated films and TV shows with women or people of color in the important jobs behind the scenes—director, producer or writer—tended to have better diversity numbers.
2017年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section BNot only that, but when people faced no consequences for dishonesty, their falsehoods tended to get even more sensational.
2019年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section CRather than merely asking about something they wanted to try, they tended to include both cause and effect in their question.
2015年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section CRespondents' minds tended to wander more when they felt upset rather than happy.
2019年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section BTerrie Moffitt of Duke University and her research colleagues found that kids with self-control issues tended to grow up to become adults with a far more troubling set of issues to deal with.
2016年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section CReaders also tended to share articles that were exciting or funny, or that inspired negative feelings like anger or anxiety, but not articles that left them merely sad.
2016年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读D 原文Researchers analyzing word-of-mouth communication—e-mails, web posts and reviews, face-to-face conversations—found that it tended to be more positive than negative, but that didn't necessarily mean people preferred positive news.
2016年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读D 原文They tended to be more adaptable.
2019年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读D 选项Fruit flies who were taught to be smarter than the average fruit fly tended to live shorter lives.
2009年考研真题（英语一）完形填空 Section ⅠThe effect tended to be larger for larger firms.
2011年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section ⅡThe study found that, among prosecuted firms, those with the most comprehensive CSR programmes tended to get more lenient penalties.
2016年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section ⅡWorkers tended to be diligent for the first few days of the week in any case, before hitting a plateau and then slackening off.
2010年考研真题（英语一）完形填空 Section Ⅰ