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词汇 tended
释义 tended
past simple and past participle oftend
tend
verb
uk /tend/ us /tend/

tendverb (BE LIKELY)


B2[ I ]
to be likely to behave in a particular way or have a particular characteristic: 倾向;易于;往往会
[ + to infinitive ]We tend to get cold winters and warm, dry summers in this part of the country.在我国这个地区,往往冬季寒冷而夏季温暖干燥。
I think you tend to eat more in the winter.我想你在冬天可能会吃得更多。
Children tend to get unsettled if you keep on changing their routine.
Paintwork on the corner of a stairway tends to get nicked and scratched.楼梯转角处的油漆往往容易被刮擦剥落。
The British traditionally tend not to display much emotion in public.
Things tend to get lost when you move house.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Possible and probable
add credence to something
always
anything's possibleidiom
arguably
as never beforeidiom
bet
fair
happen
houseroom
I shouldn't wonderidiom
in with a chance
it isn't over until the fat lady singsidiom
manage
margin
probabilistic
probabilistically
probability
probable
probably
tend

tendverb (CARE)


[ T ]formal
to care for something or someone: 照顾,照管;护理
He carefully tended his sunflower plants.他精心照料他的向日葵。
The nurse gently tended the patient's cuts and bruises.护士细心护理病人的伤口和瘀肿。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to take care of someone or something
care forShe had to give up her job to care for her elderly mother.
take care ofI just want to make enough money to take care of my family.
look afterMy aunt looked after me after my parents died.
nurseHe nursed me back to health.
tendHe lived a quiet life, tending his garden and his hives.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Medical treatment: treating & caring for people
aggressively
bed blocker
bed-blocking
bring
bring someone around
clinic
health tourism
keep your/an eye on something/someoneidiom
logroll
logrolling
look after someone/something
nurse
patch
rehospitalize
respite care
self-care
set something up
soother
tend
treat

Phrasal verb


tend to someone/something

Examples of tended


tended

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


Up until the twentieth century, regulations regarding marital fitness tended to follow the common-law rules on the capacity of parties to contract.
In general, receptive-field size tended to increase as the depth of the electrode tip increased.
The results of these structural changes have tended to be contradictory.
On the other hand, people who have studied neural network models have tended to neglect symbol manipulation.
Our target article had two major themes, and commentators tended to focus on one or the other.
Diseases are consequently a potentially important contributor to yield collapse, especially as rapeseed area has tended to increase.
In addition to the milking, the izinceku also tended to the king's oxen and fetched water for the king in gourds.
In the present study, tunnel length in maize tended to increase with age of the plant, while larval weight per cm tunnel produced decreased.
The average for each grade was a negative value; however, the fourth and sixth graders' averages tended to approach zero.
In general, it is clear that the women who married younger tended to have lower age-specific fertility rates.
These findings tended to revert to normal in the third month of illness.
Early training programs in cultural competence tended to rely on categorical constructs that lumped patients together by their "typical" cultural values, customs, and beliefs.
This suggests that seed predators tended to be more host-specific in 1998 than in 1996.
As already noted, early levels of excess mortality tended to be found in the 1 to 4 years age group.
During periods of political instability they tended to side with the regime.
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