fend for

基本解释

Families, unprotected by rule of law, fend for themselves at the expense of individuals outside the clan.
无法获得法治保护的家庭，以牺牲外人的代价来保护自己。
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.
而玛洛克维亚夫人需要自己谋生了，她通过做翻译，并在北海的一个渔村做织工而勉强度日。
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.
我们认为，西班牙完全可以自己照料自己，因为这个国家的公共债务水平很低，且可以在不危及公债的情况下重组其银行业。

"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.
很多人都认为这是一个积极的改变,然而在那些富饶地区,获取肉类轻而易举,同样时间内,人类可以获取更多能量,相对那些靠种植获取食物的人类来说,这些地区有足够多的食物来抵御饥荒
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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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