"It's ready to fly, it's a completely autonomous electric airplane now, meaning that it has its own electronics battery and motor."

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

So, we have a kind of image there of the autonomous aesthetic pleasure, right, the pleasure of imagination that's taken alone, according to one's own thoughts rather than in some broader, more social form.

好了，这就是一种自发的美学享受的情景,对，这就是独自幻想的乐趣，它出自人自己的想法，而不是一些更宽广的概念，不是一些更社会化的形式。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I also advocated it as a right for autonomous adults to choose if they are eternally ill.

我还主张将选择安乐死作为自主的成年人的一项权利,使他们在患有绝症的时候可以有所选择。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

He says a crackdown in the semi-autonomous Puntland region has meant the prisons are full of pirates.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30

Unlike Nabokov, these writers are not trying to make a language that is autonomous and separate from the world, so you will not see the kind of artifice and the labored attention to form.

不同的是这些作家并不想要营造一种,独立的和世界分离的语言，所以你不会看到这方面的炼化技巧,和费劲地塑造。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Each of China's provinces, autonomous regions and special administrative regions contributed a float.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

It is autonomous in the sense that it is a pure, uncluttered and uninfluenced declaration of fact or falsehood.

科学是自主的，因为,科学就是单纯的,不受外界影响的，关于真伪的论断。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Nabokov When we moved on to Nabokov, we had an author trying to imagine a work of art so autonomous from the world that it could be something like an autonomous form of life.

接下来我们说了，这是一位试图将文学作品想象为发自世界,以至于成为生活的一种自主形式的作家。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选