Arti: attend

menghadiri

atten Idiom

attend to someone

take care or deal with someone The doctor attended to the other patient before he got to my mother.

call attention to

ask you to read or notice, draw attention to I would like to call attention to the student parking problem.

draw attention to

"ask people to notice; show or display to people" If you wear a short skirt, you draw attention to your legs.

draw it to my attention

tell me about it, cause me to be aware of it Spelling is a problem. Thanks for drawing it to my attention.

get your attention

cause you to be aware of, catch your eye When Marylou walked by, that got your attention.

pay attention

look at or listen to with full attention He never pays attention to what his supervisor tells him.

attend on

1．act as a servant for 侍候
The president is attended on by many followers and guards．总统身边有许多随从和卫士。
2．give personal help to照料
Lisa has been attending on her sick mother for years．丽莎多年来一直侍候在生病的母亲身旁。
3．follow as a result是…的必然结果
Success usually attends on one's efforts．成功是努力的结果。

attend on/upon

attend to

1．give attention to注意；专心
Please attend to what I'll tell you．请注意我要讲的话。
He attended to his business．他专心于他的事务。
2．give help to ； take care of ；deal with照料；护理；处理
I have a lot of things to attend to．我有许多事情要处理。
Would you please attend to the child when I am off to work？我上班时，你照看一下这孩子，好吗？

attend upon

draw sb's attention to

direct sb．'s attention to 引起…注意
The teacher was not wrong to draw the child's attention to the errors in spelling，but he should have centred on the child's ideas in composition．这位老师要孩子注意拼写错误并不错，但是他应该把注意力集中在孩子在作文里所表达的思想上。
He drew my attention to a point I had overlooked．他提醒我注意我所忽略的一点。

fatten up

give a person or animal plenty to eat，causing him or it to gain weight长肥；养壮
The pigs are being fattened up for market．这些猪正在被催肥待售。
She is fattening up the ducks．她正在把鸭子养肥。
I'm trying to fatten him up as fast as I can．我在努力尽快把他养得壮实些。

pay attention to

place importance on注意
Please pay attention to the use of this word．请注意这个词的用法。
Economists are paying close attention to the latest developments in the Middle East．经济学家们正密切注视着中东的最新发展。
Pay attention to uniting and working with those who differ with you．注意团结那些和自己意见不同的人一道工作。

batten down the hatches

Idiom(s): batten down the hatches

Theme: PREPARATION

to prepare for difficult times. (A nautical expression, meaning, literally, to seal the hatches against the arrival of a storm.)
• Here comes that contentious Mrs. Jones. Batten down the hatches!
• Batten down the hatches, Congress is in session again.

attract one's attention

Idiom(s): attract one's attention

Theme: ATTENTION

to cause someone to take notice; to get someone's attention.
• I called and waved to attract Anns attention.
• A small yellow flower attracted my attention.

pay attention|attention|pay

v. phr. To listen to someone; hear and understand someone alertly. "Pay attention, children!" the teacher cried, "Here is your homework for next week!"

attendance

attendance
see dance attendance on.

attention

attention
see pay attention.

batten

batten
batten down the hatches
to fasten canvas over the hatches, esp. in preparing for a storm

dance attendance on

dance attendance on
Wait on attentively and obsequiously, obey someone's every wish or whim. For example, He expected his secretary to dance attendance on him so she quit her job. This expression alludes to the old custom of making a bride dance with every wedding guest. In the 1500s it was used first to mean “await” an audience with someone, but by about 1600 it had acquired its present meaning. Also see at someone's beck and call.

flatten

flatten
flatten out
1) to make or become flat or flatter by spreading out
2) Aeron. level off (sense ) (at level)