I don't mean an emergency like the self-defensive counter-attack on Viet Nam. That kind of incident is easy to cope with.

我讲的不是像对越自卫还击战这样的事，这样的事好应付。

youdao

Yes, Apple has always held that market share didn't matter as much as profitability, but that attitude seemed increasingly like a defensive self-justification as its market share bottomed near 3%.

是的，苹果即使长期保持着同样的市场份额也不会影响其获利，但这态度看上去就像是自我防御，其市场份额近乎低的只剩3%。

youdao

The solution doesn't lie in puritanical self-restraint or in a defensive insistence that there's nothing wrong.

解决的方式不在于像清教徒那样进行自我约束，或者是进行无意义的持续辩护。

youdao

"We will take physical actions aimed at expanding and strengthening our self-defensive military forces, including nuclear deterrence, " it said.

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Even on those two highly favorable (and not very realistic) assumptions, the judges rated the majority of the self-defensive gun uses as falling into one of the two illegal categories.

CNN: Guns endanger more than they protect

Based upon this record, a President Kerry's idea of a "smarter war" would be one in which, by his own admission, the "legitimacy" of America's self-defensive actions would be determined by a "global test" - the decisive votes evidently to be cast by countries suborned by commercial ties, strategic relations or corrupt connections with our enemies.

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