tend

vt.照料，照顾；护理；照管，管理

vi.倾向（于），趋向（于）；伺侯，招待；关心；注意

verb

1. 往往会；常常就
   to be likely to do sth or to happen in a particular way because this is what often or usually happens
   1. Women tend to live longer than men.
      女人往往比男人长寿。
   2. When I'm tired, I tend to make mistakes.
      我累了就容易出错。
   3. It tends to get very cold here in the winter.
      这里冬天往往会很冷。
   4. People tend to think that the problem will never affect them.
      人们往往认为这个问题绝不会影响到他们。
2. 趋向；走向；倾向；趋于
   to take a particular direction or often have a particular quality
   1. His views tend towards the extreme.
      他的观点趋于偏激。
   2. Prices have tended downwards over recent years.
      近年来物价趋于下降。
3. 照料；照管；护理
   to care for sb/sth
   1. a shepherd tending his sheep
      照看羊的牧人
   2. Doctors and nurses tended the injured.
      医生和护士护理受伤者。
   3. well-tended gardens
      精心照料的花园
   4. Ambulance crews were tending to the injured.
      救护车上的救护人员在照料受伤者。
4. 招待，侍候，照顾，照料（商店、酒吧等的顾客）
   to serve customers in a store, bar, etc.
   1. He had a job tending bar in San Francisco.
      他在旧金山做酒吧服务员。

第三人称单数:tends 过去式:tended 过去分词:tended 现在分词:tending

tend 倾向，趋向

来自拉丁语 tendere,延伸，拉长，词源同 attend,extend.引申词义倾向，趋向。

1. We tend to think in absolutes.
   我们思考问题倾向于绝对化。
2. The most acquisitive firms tend to be engineering groups.
   最贪得无厌的公司往往是工程队。
3. In our culture we tend to be bashful about our talents and skills.
   在我们的文化中，我们往往羞于谈论自己的才干和技能。
4. State bureaucracies can tend to stifle enterprise and initiative.
   国家的官僚体制往往会扼杀人们的事业心和积极性。
5. Although these vegetables adapt well to our temperate climate, they tend to crop poorly.
   虽然这些蔬菜作物很适应我们这里温和的气候，它们的收成却很差。
6. I tend to have a different answer, depending on the family
   根据家庭的不同，我往往会给出不同的答案。
7. She is very direct. I tend to be more diplomatic, I suppose.
   她人很直，我觉得我更婉转一些。
8. They will tend to model their behaviour on the teacher's behaviour.
   他们会倾向于模仿老师的行为举止。
9. Asian women are more modest and shy, yet they tend to have an inner force
   亚洲女性表现得更为端庄腼腆，却往往外柔内刚。
10. If you are not careful, children tend to neglect their homework.
    如果你不注意的话，孩子们往往会不重视他们的家庭作业。
11. In Britain today we tend to consider old age as a social problem
    在当今英国我们往往将老龄视为社会问题。
12. Studies have shown that women tend to be more participatory in their management style.
    研究表明，女性的管理风格往往具有更强的参与式特点。
13. In older age groups women predominate because men tend to die younger
    在老年群体中女性占大多数，因为男性的寿命往往较短。
14. Women's bodies tend to have a higher proportion of fat to water.
    女性的身体内脂肪与水分的比例往往更高。
15. It is worth remembering that children tend to copy their parents in this respect
    值得记住的是孩子们在这一方面往往会效仿父母。
16. As women we tend to be self-effacing and make light of what we have achieved.
    作为女性我们往往不喜夸耀，对自己获得的成功轻描淡写。
17. All children will tend to suffer from separation from their parents and siblings.
    所有的孩子和他们的父母及兄弟姐妹分开后往往都会难过。
18. Blind children tend to be more passive in this area of motor development than sighted children.
    失明的孩子在动作发展的这一方面往往比不失明的孩子更加被动。
19. 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。
20. 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。
21. 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。
22. 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。
23. 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。
24. 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。
25. 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。
26. 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。
27. We women have a lot of good business skills, although we tend to underrate ourselves
    我们女性拥有很多出色的商业技巧，只是我们往往会看轻自己。
28. If you speak standard English anywhere round our way, people tend to view you with suspicion.
    如果你在我们这里说标准英语，大家就会对你产生怀疑。
29. We tend to make mistakes when we do things in a hurry.
    忙中不免出错。