"You really need system-wide Skolkovas - Silicon Valley - otherwise it ends up just like under Catherine the Great when they imported a lot of German tradesmen and planted them in various settlements - but they were fairly self-contained.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

Now a sign traditionally understood is self-sufficient, self-contained.

传统意义上的符号是自给自足的。

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