fend是一个动词，意思是保护、避开或应对某种情况。常见的词组搭配有”fend off”，意思是挡开或抵挡某个攻击或威胁。例如：”He fended off the attacker with a stick.”（他用棍子挡开了攻击者。）
另外，fend也可以指通过努力维持生计或满足需求。例如：”He has to work long hours to fend for his family.”（他不得不工作长时间来维持家庭。）
fend的发音为/fend/，拼写为f-e-n-d。
fend的中文翻译是防御、保护、照料。读音为 [fend]。
例句：
1. She had to fend off unwanted advances from her boss.
她必须防止老板的不良企图。
2. The mother cat fended for her kittens.
母猫为她的小猫们提供保护和照料。
3. He had to fend for himself when he moved to the big city.
当他搬到大城市时，他必须自谋生路。
fend在中文中有”挡开、闪避”的意思，还经常被翻译为保护，发音是[fend]，在英语中以动词出现较多，在《英语ABC实用语法词典》中，共找到76个与fend相关的例句。
1.挡开
例句:Healthy trees are also better able to fend off bark beetle. (健康的树木也能更好地抵御树皮甲虫。)
2.闪避
例句:Nelson Piquet finished a lowly 16th in Turkey, but on Sunday the Brazilian did enough to fend off speculation about his future. (皮奎特完成了排名第16，土耳其，但在周日的巴西也足以抵御投机对自己的未来。)
3.保护
例句:We in Korea now have to ask ourselves whether we possess a state strategy to fend off Chinese egotistic, nationalistic hegemony. (在韩国，我们现在要问自己，我们是否拥有一个国家战略，以抵御中国自我中心，民族主义霸权。)
4.难题、保护
例句:The answer to the question of what caused the blight could help scientists fend off similar epidemics in the future. (翻译:如果可以找出造成作物枯萎的原因，将有助于科学家预防未来发生类似的传染病。)
fend一般作为动词使用，如在fend for(抚养)、fend … off(na. 挡开；避开(灾祸等)
[网络] 挡回；抵御；垫开)、fend against(抵御,抵挡)等常见短语中出现较多。
[网络] 挡回；抵御；垫开
1. We in Korea now have to ask ourselves whether we possess a state strategy to fend off Chinese egotistic, nationalistic hegemony. (翻译:在韩国，我们现在要问自己，我们是否拥有一个国家战略，以抵御中国自我中心，民族主义霸权。)
2. The answer to the question of what caused the blight could help scientists fend off similar epidemics in the future. (翻译:如果可以找出造成作物枯萎的原因，将有助于科学家预防未来发生类似的传染病。)
3. Try to fend off any heels you see heading for my eyes. (翻译:把那些试图往我眼睛上踩的高跟鞋推开 Try to fend off any heels you see heading for my eyes.)
4. It was the second time in less than a week that Bank of East Asia has had to fend off negative publicity. (翻译:这是该行在不到一周内第二次必须应对负面消息。)
5. So now, you’ve got your pizza nights, you’ve got your microwave nights, you’ve got your grazing nights, you’ve got your fend-for-yourself nights and so on. (翻译:所以现在我们在晚上吃比萨，用微波炉加热食品， 去大吃大喝， 自给自足，等等。)
6. Through the harsh military training, Mulan proved to be courageous and unstoppable, and always helped others to fend off the army bully. (翻译:艰苦的训练证明了木兰是个勇往直前的，她一直帮助战友们抵挡里恶霸的欺压。)
7. So now, you’ve got your pizza nights, you’ve got your microwave nights, you’ve got your grazing nights, you’ve got your fend-for-yourself nights and so on. (翻译:所以现在我们在晚上吃比萨，用微波炉加热食品， 去大吃大喝， 自给自足，等等。)
8. But Clenk never got the message, and when he saw the state of affairs in Formosa, he fled for Japan, leaving Coyett to fend for himself. (翻译:但是克朗克没有接到通知，而当看到战势时，他就逃到日本，让揆一自生自灭。)
9. I propose that we fend off the enemy, at the earliest- at the Viipuri (翻译:我认为我们应该尽快在维普里 -卡普萨瑞- 泰普尔一线挡住敌人…)
10. I crafted our lurid reputation, in order to fend off the most insidious evil, that’s been lurking this forsaken country of ours. (翻译:и矪床闽硂┢ 碞琌称璶环瞒筂и硂 ぃ┋瓣产竜碿︽)
11. He’s gone completely round the twist since his mother died and left him to fend for himself. (翻译:自从去世并丢下他去自己谋生之后，他完全疯了。)
12. I was the unplanned fifth of five boys left to fend for meself after me mum died giving birth to number six. (翻译:我是五兄弟中的第五个 我的出生属于意外… 在我妈妈生完第六个孩子去世后 我就得自己养活自己了)
13. Many surviving humans like us were left to fend for themselves. (翻译:许多像我们这样的幸存者 只好靠自己求生存)
14. However, if we parents are unaware, we are leaving our children to fend for themselves. (翻译:可是，如果我们做父母的不知道， 那我们就让孩子们 照料他们自己去了。)
15. You have to fight your competition, fend off their attacks, and sometimes, you have to kill. (翻译:你得跟你的竞争对手战斗 抵挡他们的进攻 有时候 你不得不痛下杀手)
fend作为动词的时候，其近义词以及反义词有i、fending/p、fended/d、fended/3、fends等。
