【绝望的主妇】“在你上大学之前，你得学会自理。”

【句子】Why should you fend for yourself when you can just come home with me? 【Desperate Housewives S01E23】
【发音】/waɪ/ /ʃʊd/ /juː/ /fend/ /fə(r)/ /jərˈself/ /wen/ /juː/ /kæn/ /dʒʌst/ /kʌm/ /həʊm/ /wɪð/ /miː/
【发音技巧】should you音的同化；fend for不完全爆破；just come失去爆破；
【翻译】你能跟我一起回家，为什么非要自己照顾自己呢？
【适用场合】
fend 有“保护、供养、谋生、照料”这样的意思，今天我们来学习一个跟它相关的短语：fend for oneself，一起来看看：
to look after oneself without help from anyone else
独立生活；照料自己；自理；

eg: The kids had to fend for themselves while their parents were away.
父母不在家时，孩子们只好自己照顾自己。

eg: Moving to a new country for college really made me learn to fend for myself.
去一个新的国家上大学真的让我学会了独立生活。

eg: I won’t be home from work until about 9 o’clock, so you and your sister will have to fend for yourselves for dinner.
我要到九点左右才能下班回家，所以你和你妹妹得自己吃晚饭了。

eg: You’re going to have to learn to fend for yourself before you head off to college.
在你上大学之前，你得学会自理。

eg: His parents agreed to pay the rent for his apartment but otherwise left him to fend for himself.
他的父母让他一个独立生活，但却同意给他支付公寓的租金。

eg: The fox was released into the wild when it was old enough to fend for itself.
当那只狐狸足够大，能够自己在野外生存时，它被放归大自然了。

eg: The woman and her young baby had been thrown out and left to fend for themselves.
那个女人和她的年幼的孩子被赶走了，他们只能靠自己谋生了。

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我一个人到欧洲后，不得不学会独立生活。