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There is that idea that people should do for themselves.

有一种观念是说人们要自力更生。

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The participants in our study just want the chance to do for themselves and not be dependent.

参与进我们的研究的人只是想有自己为自己动手的机会，而不是靠其他。

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He said the Union of states was permanent -- that the men who built the Union did not do so only for themselves, but for all future Americans.

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These are honors reserved exclusively for virgins, honors reserved only for those who do not defile themselves with the sins of the flesh.

这是专门为童贞保留的荣誉，专门为那些,没有玷污自己肉体的人保留的荣誉。

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When do they start thinking of themselves as French? And this has been hotly debated in the literature for a very long time.

他们什么时候开始觉得自己是法国人了,这曾在文学界,引起长时间热烈的讨论

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He basically said, we should never do things for people that they can do for themselves.

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These will include limits on how much trading banks can do for themselves.

ECONOMIST: Finance

The difference, as I view it, is not in the applauded desire to help those who cannot do for themselves.

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