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单词 to fend for
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to fend for
b. to fend for: to make shift for, look after, provide for. So in to fend for oneself. Chiefly dialect or colloquial.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > care for, protect, or have charge of [verb (transitive)] > take care of or look after > specifically a person > attend to or act for the benefit of
seea1350
to see to ——a1382
sorrow1481
to see for ——c1500
to fend for1629
to see someone right1829
to see someone all right1840
1629 T. Jackson Treat. Divine Essence ii. 67 Nor doth..any other creatures..direct their brood in their motions, but leave them to fend for themselves.
1660 H. More Explan. Grand Myst. Godliness To Rdr. ¶26. p. xxiv They are such as..fend for themselves as well as they may.
1785 W. Hutton Bran New Wark 468 When the awner will not fend for his sell.
1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. I ha twa bairns to fend for.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian viii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 210 Ane wad hae carried me through the warld, and friended me, and fended for me.
1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. x. 204 Lads, as could fend for theirsens.
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