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 couldn't possibly leave the designers to fend for themselves.

我不可能离开，让设计师们自己照顾自己。

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In his office plastered with photographs of the aftermath, Sakurai Katsunobe, the town's lean and furious mayor, says residents have been left to fend for themselves.

在镇长办公室里，墙上贴着小镇灾难后的照片，瘦弱激愤的镇长Sakurai Katsunobe说居民最后被留下来自救。

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

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