tend是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 趋向， 往往是； 照料， 看护，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was ailing at that time, poor fellow, and she married her lover, that she might tend and comfort him in our cottage our dog-hut, as that man would call it.
-- Checking his steps which had begun to tend towards an object, he took a turn or two in the already darkening street, and traced the thought in his mind to its possible conse-quences.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If Pa and you would tend to things instead of standing around fussing, I wouldn't have to butt in.
-- "I better cut this out," he said to Leora, "if I'm going to settle down in Wheatsylvania and tend to business and make a living--and I by golly am!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My footsteps seemed to tend so naturally to the shop-door, after Ihad read these words from over the way, that I went across theroad and looked in.
-- Perhaps it impressed me the more then, because it wasnew to me, but it certainly did not tend to exalt my opinion of, orto strengthen my confidence in, Mr. Jack Maldon.
-- Among other havens of domestictranquillity and peace of mind, my feet will naturally tend towardsthe King's Bench Prison.
-- Cheerful along with me; retired whenothers is by; fond of going any distance fur to tend a sick child, orfur to tend a sick person, or fur to do some kindness tow'rds ayoung girl's wedding (and she's done a many, but has never seenone); fondly loving of her uncle; patient; liked by young and old;sowt out by all that has any trouble.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am much mistaken if Emma's doctrines give any strength of mind, or tend at all to make a girl adapt her-self rationally to the varieties of her situation in life. They only give a little polish.'
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He strove to shelter her, as a fair exotic is sheltered by the gardener, from every rougher wind and to surround her with all that could tend to excite pleasurable emotion in her soft and benevolent mind.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'll tend to you four in the morning!'
-- Soon Raphael Semmes and the Confederate Navy would tend to thoseYankee gunboats and the ports would be wide open.
-- How shocked if she suddenly climbed on the bandstand and declared that she thought the war ought to stop, soeverybody could go home and tend to their cotton and there could be parties and beaux again and plenty of pale greendresses.
-- And if anybody dares say one little word about you, I'll tend to them.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 199ASHPUTTEL he wife of a rich man fell sick; and when she felt that her Tend drew nigh, she called her only daughter to her bed-side, and said, 'Always be a good girl, and I will look down from heaven and watch over you.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I mean that I hope you may be induced to arrange in a friendly manner, for allowing Louisa a period of repose and reflection here, which may tend to a gradual alteration for the better in many respects.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All modern experiments tend to explode the older theories.
-- These poor lepers did not tend to enliven our journey, the scene of which was inexpressibly sad and lonely.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Chester asked me if I would, and I of-fered to tend a table, as I have nothing but my time to give.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And if at times these things bent the welded iron of his soul, much more did his far-away domestic memories of his young Cape wife and child, tend to bend him still more from the original ruggedness of his nature, and open him still further to those latent influences which, in some honest-hearted men, restrain the gush of dare-devil daring, so often evinced by others in the more perilous vicissitudes of the fishery.
-- Though the long period of a Southern whaling voyage (by far the longest of all voyages now or ever made by man), the peculiar perils of it, and the community of interest prevailing among a company, all of whom, high or low, depend for their profits, not upon fixed wages, but upon their common luck, together with their common vigilance, intrepidity, and hard work; though all these things do in some cases tend to beget a less rigorous discipline than in merchantmen generally; yet, never mind how much like an old Mesopotamian family these whalemen may, in some primitive instances, live together; for all that, the punctilious externals, at least, of the quarter-deck are seldom materially relaxed, and in no instance done away.
-- Nor did the whetstone which the harpooneers carried in their pockets, for their lances and other weapons; and with which whetstones, at dinner, they would ostentatiously sharpen their knives; that grating sound did not at all tend to tranquillize poor Dough-Boy.
-- Nor does this its amazing strength, at all tend to cripple the graceful flexion of its motions; where infantileness of ease undulates through a Titanism of power.
-- The chance comparison in this chapter, between the whale and the elephant, so far as some aspects of the tail of the one and the trunk of the other are concerned, should not tend to place those two opposite organs on an equality, much less the creatures to which they respectively belong.
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