Customers define themselves through the brands or vendors they choose.

消费者通过他们所选用的品牌或厂商来定义自身。

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The new shareholders - who define themselves as owners - were first viewed as saviors.

《世界报》的三位新股东——他们将自身定位为“拥有者”，却被外界看作“救世主”。

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They define themselves by it and this makes them dependent on their clients or patients, as much as the other way around.

他们用之定义自己，并且让自己依赖于他们的当事人或病人，就如同病人依赖他们一样。

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You can't define things in terms of themselves.

老师会骂你的定义了。

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Employees and people in general define themselves by whether they make mistakes or not.

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No-one is suggesting that young people don't misbehave, but teenagers no longer seem to define themselves by wild disobedience.

BBC: Is the teen rebel a dying breed?

But in order to receive it, they may have to let Hispanics define themselves on their own terms.

NPR: The Latino Vote, on its Own Terms