It's a time to begin the process of self-reliance and self-motivation.

这是开始自力更生和自我激励的时候。

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One must not go to extremes in applying the principle of self-reliance.

不要把自力更生绝对化。

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Remember this is 1838, "Self-Reliance" was a novel idea at the time and the United States citizens were less secure about themselves as individuals and as Americans.

记住这是在1838年，“自力更生”在当时是一个新奇的概念，美国公民对他们自己作为个人和作为美国人的安全感较低。

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But even an ideal like self-reliance I can remake my world, I can be anything I want is changed by the Market Revolution.

甚至是理想主义的自主,我能改造我的世界,我能成就任何事,这种观念也被市场革命改变了

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Virtue means for him a kind of manly self-assertion, audacity, ruthlessness, a reliance on one's own arms and calculated use of cruelty to achieve one's ends.

美德对他而言,是一种具男子气概的自作主张，胆大，冷酷，自助，且还会算计使用残忍手段,来达致目标。

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Even such concepts, such great American concepts let's call it that--as self-reliance about which Ralph Waldo Emerson may have written his greatest essay I go read Emerson's "Self-Reliance" at least once a year.

这样的观念,伟大的美国式的观念,让我们称呼它为,自助,这是拉尔夫·华尔多·爱默生写过的,最具影响力的作品,我每年至少读一次爱默生的《自助》

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Americans fear large government, believe in self reliance, and strive for individual success while not begrudging those who succeed.

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And American pride in personal initiative and self reliance?

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