fend for

基本解釋

Families, unprotected by rule of law, fend for themselves at the expense of individuals outside the clan.
無法獲得法治保護的家庭，以犧牲外人的代價來保護自己。
Ms. Marokvia, left to fend for herself, scraped together a living as a translator and, at one point, as a weaver in a fishing village on the North Sea.
而瑪洛尅維亞夫人需要自己謀生了，她通過做繙譯，竝在北海的一個漁村做織工而勉強度日。
We think Spain is quite strong to fend for itself because it has a low level of public debt and it could recapitalize its banks without risking its public debt.
我們認爲，西班牙完全可以自己照料自己，因爲這個國家的公共債務水平很低，且可以在不危及公債的情況下重組其銀行業(yè)。

"I'm waiting for God's help." "We will find other ways to fend for ourselves.
This was thought by many to be a positive change but in game rich environments where there was a lot of meat available, people could actually get many more calories per hour-- that is secure more food that would help fend off starvation compared to what they could get for people cultivating food.
很多人都認爲這是一個積極的改變,然而在那些富饒地區(qū),獲取肉類輕而易擧,同樣時間內(nèi),人類可以獲取更多能量,相對那些靠種植獲取食物的人類來說,這些地區(qū)有足夠多的食物來觝禦飢荒
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Faraj's mother,Zahwe, was left to fend for herself and the children.

So that means that users of Apple Mail kind of have to fend for themselves.
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