tending

1. VERB 往往会；经常就
   If something tends to happen, it usually happens or it often happens.
   1. A problem for manufacturers is that lighter cars tend to be noisy...
      制造商们遇到的一个问题是，重量较轻的汽车往往噪音大。
   2. In older age groups women predominate because men tend to die younger...
      在老年群体里女性占大多数，因为男性通常不易高寿。
   3. They tend to buy cheap processed foods like canned chicken and macaroni.
      他们往往会买便宜的加工食品，像鸡肉罐头和通心粉之类的。
2. VERB 倾向于，容易表现出(某种特性)
   If you tend towards a particular characteristic, you often display that characteristic.
   1. Artistic and intellectual people tend towards left-wing views.
      搞艺术的人和知识分子容易持“左倾”观点。
3. VERB 个人认为;个人觉得
   You can say that you tend to think something when you want to give your opinion, but do not want it to seem too forceful or definite.
   1. I tend to think that members of parliament by and large do a good job.
      我个人觉得，议会议员总体上工作还是不错的。
4. VERB 护理;照料;照看
   If you tend someone or something, you do what is necessary to keep them in a good condition or to improve their condition.
   1. 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。
   2. He tends the flower beds and evergreens that he has planted in the driveway.
      他打理着他栽在车道两旁的花坛和常青树。
5. VERB 照顾;照管;伺候
   If you tend to someone or something, you pay attention to them and deal with their problems and needs.
   1. In our culture, girls are brought up to tend to the needs of others...
      在我们的文化里，女孩从小就学着照料别人。
   2. She hurried away to pour more coffee and tend to the grill.
      她匆忙走开，去添加咖啡和照看烤架。

1. Several fishermen sat on wooden barrels, tending their nets.
   几个渔夫坐在木桶上修补渔网。
2. The situation is tending towards stability.
   局势趋于稳定。
3. Prices are tending upward [ downward].
   物价趋涨[降]。
4. Tending her mother has filled a void in her life.
   照顾母亲填补了她生活中的空虚。
5. ( economics) associated with or tending to cause increases in inflation.
   （经济学）与通货膨胀有关或趋向于引起通货膨胀的。
6. Tending bees is not work, it's a treat.
   照顾蜜蜂不是一项工作，而是一种享受。
7. But farming cannot support two families, so the younger man has taken a job tending graveyards instead.
   但经营农场的收入没法供养两个家庭，所以他的儿子找了另外一份工作&看墓地。
8. Tending to suggest or imply.
   倾向于暗示或者表示其意味。
9. Wildlife tending could enhance the scope of A.oxyphyIla to CO2 adaptation.
   野生抚育提高了益智CO2的适应范围。
10. Tending or directed upward. No trend was found in the unification of introversion and extroversion.
    向上趋势的或指向上的。与不同人群相比，内外向倾（E）分没有统一的趋势。
11. A general tendency or inclination. tending or directed upward.
    趋向总的趋向或倾向向上趋势的或指向上的。
12. Able or tending to communicate.
    能够或者倾向于与人沟通。
13. Change law and tending of the industrial structure;
    产业结构的变化规律和趋向；
14. His conduct tending to disregard the judge's order constituted contempt of court.
    他不遵从法官命令之行为构成了藐视法庭罪。
15. And unlike physiotherapy, patients tending to a garden derive additional benefits by creating or changing things.
    不像物理疗法，照料花园的病人通过创造或改变事情获得额外的好处。
16. Technical measures, effects and benefits of chemical weeding in young eucalypt plantation tending were analyzed in this paper.
    简述和分析了化学除草技术在桉树幼林抚育中的技术措施、效果和效益。
17. He is out there in france, tending the dying in the trenches.
    他远赴法国，照顾那些在战壕中垂死的士兵。
18. Tending or directed upward.
    向上趋势的或指向上的。
19. Biology Tending to deviate, as from a normal or recognized type; aberrant.
    倾向于偏离，如从一个正常的或被承认了的类型；畸变的。
20. The shepherds were tending their sheep on the hillside.
    牧羊人在山坡上照管他们的羊。
21. Tending to bring discredit or disrepute; blameworthy.
    带来耻辱和坏名声；应受谴责的。
22. Gardening: Laying out and tending of a garden.
    园艺：布置和管理一座花园。
23. Tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value.
    倾向于减少或价值上减少的。
24. Tending to impart new life and vigor to.
    倾向于给予新生或精力的。
25. Tending directly to the life of misery which was to befal me.
    直接导致了降临在我面前的悲惨生活。
26. LADY MACBETH: Give him tending; He brings great news.
    麦克白夫人好好照顾他；他带来了重大消息。
27. Tending to combine and coordinate diverse elements into a whole.
    倾向于联合和调整不同成分为一个整体。
28. Tending to acquire and retain ideas or information.
    希望获得、学到思想和知识。
29. Tending to occur among members of a family usually by heredity.
    通常是通过遗传而在其家族成员中发生。

noun

1. the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something
   1. no medical care was required
   2. the old car needs constant attention

   Synonym:    careattentionaid