We like to think that a free market's greatest strength is its self-corrective nature.

我们往往认为，自由市场最大的好处就是它有自我纠正的本能。

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It is a strength because it gives Chinese civilization its self-confidence and its tenacity.

其长处在于，这种感觉给了中华文明以自信和坚持。

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The world-bestriding hyperpower of ten years ago has lost its self-confidence and craves a chance to regroup.

十年前的凌驾于世界之上的超级大国，到如今已经丧失了自信，渴望一次重组的机会。

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But by pursuing its current foreign policy strategy, Turkey is also taking on Iran's mostly self-ascribed role as defender of the Muslim underdog.

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That is to say, it manifests its self-sufficiency.

换句话说，就是事物显示自我的方式。

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And there's a self-consciousness about the temporal strangeness of this poem that leads, I think, to its crisis moment. Look at stanza sixteen.

他自己也意识到,诗歌暂时性的古怪会导致，危机的到来，看第六段。

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Britain, in pursuit of its self-proclaimed Empire, was always on the lookout for strong armies.

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Serbia still considers Kosovo a province and has refused to recognize its self-declared status.

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Repeated US assertion of its self-interests also gives the impression that all non-US-citizens are less important.

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