单词tend
v.: 趋向(于)；对…有帮助；有…倾向；照管
网络: 护理；往往是；照料
【航海】守望,照料(船身随潮水转动时锚索不绕乱)
朝着,引向,接近
服侍,侍候
对…有帮助,有助于
服侍,招待
护理
注意,照看;办理
看管(牛羊等),照料,照管,管理(植物等)
趋向(于),倾向(于)
趋于,有意;容易;往往;乐于;导致
第三人称单数：tends
现在分词：tending
过去分词：tended
v.+n.:
tend support,tend view,tend garden,tend sheep
v.have a habit ofinclinelean towardsbe likely tobe apt to
v.neglect
He tended to his wife with the wary compassion of a plague nurse.
他带着一个受折磨的护士般的小心谨慎的怜悯之心照顾着他的妻子。
A dirty surface can be cleaned with a mois-tended sponger or cloth. If the dirt persists, the surface can be relevelled.
脏了墙面可以用湿布或泡沫擦拭，如果擦拭不掉，可以重新涂抹一遍。
Its advocates tended to be the sort of people who mostly went around the world live-tweeting from conferences about the virtues of Twitter.
它的拥趸大多是在世界各地用微博直播关于推特优点的讨论的那类人。
The omniscient effect this created tended to terrify victims; one said later that she felt like her life had been taken from her.
其无所不知的行径吓坏了受害者们；其中一人后来说她感到就像自己的人生被剥夺了。
He said the only time he tended to speak to them was in dealing with disaster relief and humanitarian assistance.
他说，他和中方交谈的唯一机会，往往是在处理救灾和人道援助问题时。
suggest that over the long-term housing has tended to beat inflation by a couple of percentage points a year.
长期的房价上涨势必会以每年几个百分点的速度超过通货膨胀。
They found no treasure. But the vineyard gave its fruits many times more as it had been well tended.
他们没有发现财宝。但是，由于葡萄园得到了精心管理，园子结出葡萄多了好几倍。
Users tended to also be loosely connected to people with a similar number of friends and of the same age.
朋友数量相似，年龄相近的人之间更易有一些朋友关系。
In the case of a painful incurable disease, the patient is advised to commit suicide, but is carefully tended if he refuses to do so.
有人患了痛苦的不治之症，便劝告他莫如自杀，但是假若病者不肯自杀，便给他细心周到的照料。
She tended to write mostly poetry first. After some encouragement from her teacher, Mr. Hill, she decided to try her hand at stories.
刚开始她尝试以写诗为主，后来得到她的老师希尔先生的鼓励后，她才开始尝试写一些故事。