Insularity and self - containment, it is argued, go hand in hand.

他们争论说，心胸狭窄和自我封闭是并存的。

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In other words, we should not care what people say about us, but we should be prepared to develop qualities of self-containment, autonomy and independence from the influence that others can exercise over us.

换句话说，我们不应理会别人怎么说我们，而我们应准备好,发展自制的特质，自治与自主,排除他人,可能对我们的影响。

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Mr. Oldman's emphasis is on self-containment, but what his Smiley seems to contain is all the wisdom of a blighted world.

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Here, his frame is clear, lucid, and calm, and he is working with an actress who can draw fury out of extreme elegance and self-containment.

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The second is the illusion of national self-containment, the belief that, since the Norman Conquest, English experience has unfolded within its own unique parameters, separating it radically from the continent.

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