tendency 是根据 tend 变化而来的，表示趋向、趋势， trend 也表示趋势，他们的细微区别如下： trend 指事物开展总的方向、倾向或趋势。 tendency 比 trend 更抽象，一般指固有或习得的倾向性，强调没有外来的影响或干扰。 determining tendency 决定性趋势 例句： The tendency of today's young people to marry and bear children at late ages is very obvious in China . 在中国，年轻人晚婚晚育的趋势越来越明显。
While delicious, they tend to be expensive, so you could have a go at making your own.
虽然好吃，但是他们普遍比较贵。 所以你可以尝试自己制作。
Newspapers like this tend to reinforce people's prejudices.
像这样的报纸往往加深人们的偏见。
Both beginners and experts tend over time to gravitate towards intermediacy.
新手的变化更快，新手和专家随着时间推移都会倾向于成为中间用户。
tend to 倾向 tend on /upon 招待，伺候 tend the sick 护理病人 例句： He tends to give up . 他有点儿想放弃。
※He who handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung. 与恶人交往而讲仁义，必受其害。 ※It is not wide reading but useful reading that tends to excellence. 读书要有成效不在于博览群书,而在于读有用的书. ※He who knows nothing but pretends to know everything,is indeed a good-for-nothing. 不懂装懂,永世饭桶. ※Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely; great man are almost always bad man… There is no worse heresy than that the office sactifies the holder of it.Lord Acton, British historian 权力导致腐败，绝对权力绝对导致腐败。伟人几乎都不是完人……再也没有比神化掌权者更坏的异端邪说了。英国历史学家 阿克顿爵士 ※WEducation commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of children tends towards the formation of character.Hosea Ballou British cducator——教育始于母亲膝下，孩童耳听一言一语，均影响其性格的形成。英国教育家 巴卢 H ※Some people pretend to despise the things they cannot have.——Aesop, ancient Greek fable writer吃不到葡萄的人说葡萄酸。古希腊寓言作家 伊索 ※The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation ; the two keep in their downwad tendency.——Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German poet文学的衰落表明一个民族的衰落。这两者走下坡路的时候是齐头并进的。德国诗人 歌德 J W ※Histories make men wise ; poems witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep ; moral grave ; logic and rhetoric able to contend .——(Francis Bacon , British philosopher )历史使人明智；诗词使人灵秀；数学使人周密；自然哲学使人深刻；伦理使人庄重；逻辑修辞学使人善辨。( 英国哲学家 培根. F.) ※The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation ; the two keep in their downward tendency.( Johan Wolfgang von Goethe , German poet )——文学的衰落表明一个民族的衰落。这两者走下坡路的时间是齐头并进的。(德国诗人 歌德 . J . W .) ※Live as though you intend to live forever, and work as though your strength were limit less.——(S. Bernhardt) 要这样生活，仿佛你寿命永恒；要这样工作，仿佛你精力无穷。（波恩哈特）
