我们以前的生活方式，我们自给自足，而且过去我们世世代代都这样生活。

"The way we were living, we were self-sufficient, and we had lived like that for generations, " she says.

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我并不是主张我们停止寻找激励措施，让穷人走向自给自足，也不是说我们停止惩罚犯罪行为的人。

I'm not advocating that we stop looking for incentives to move poor people toward self-sufficiency or that we stop punishing people for criminal behavior.

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虽然我们自己的世界似乎是自给自足的，但它几乎从各个方面影响着皮埃蒙特的白人世界。

And though our own world was seemingly self-contained, it impacted on the white world of Piedmont in almost every direction.

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