China implements a military strategy of active defense. Strategically, China pursues a principle featuring defensive operations, self-defense and attack only after being attacked.

中国实行积极防御军事战略，在战略上坚持防御、自卫和后发制人的原则。

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By contrast, less-happy people are more apt to be defensive, isolated, and self-absorbed, and unfortunately, their negative moods are catching (technical name: emotional contagion).

形成对比地是，较不快乐的人更倾向于防御、孤立、自我沉醉，而且不幸地是，他们消极的情绪有传给别人的能力(术语：情绪传染)。

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In the process of growing up all of us learn to be self - protective, defensive, which results in building walls between others and ourselves.

在我们成长的过程中，学会了自我保护、自我防卫，而这导致了我们与他人之间的隔阂。

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Even on those two highly favorable (and not very realistic) assumptions, the judges rated the majority of the self-defensive gun uses as falling into one of the two illegal categories.

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But he cherished his privacy and disdained defensive self-publicity.

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Kouffman Sherman adds that the arm cross is a self-protecting behavior that reveals a defensive side to your personality.

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