The woman and her young baby had been thrown out and left to fend for themselves.

这个女人和她年幼的婴儿被逐出家门，只得自谋生路。

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His parents agreed to pay the rent for his apartment but otherwise left him to fend for himself.

他的父母同意替他付房租，其他的则让他自己解决。

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The disadvantages include elderly people being left alone to fend for themselves and farmers being unable to find workers to manage their fields.

不利因素包括老年人被单独留在家里自谋生路，农民找不到工人来管理他们的田地。

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"I'm waiting for God's help." "We will find other ways to fend for ourselves.

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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.

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"Let the millionaires fend for themselves for a change, " said AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka before Thanksgiving.

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Mother sharks abandon pups almost right after birth because they're able to fend for themselves.

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

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