She was self-assured, poised, almost self-satisfied.

她自信、沉着，几乎有些自满了。

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Narrowly self-interested behaviour is ultimately self-defeating.

狭隘自私的行为最终会自拆台脚。

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They believed that good parents should be self-sacrificing and self-denying.

他们相信好的父母应该自我牺牲和克己忘我。

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In nineteen eighty-seven, she founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development to improve the lives of black children.

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It's simply, notice the form of it here is, it's going to take two arguments, self self is the original instance.

这很简单，注意这里的格式，它有两个参数，你说对了，是原始的实例，and，you’re，right，也就是说。

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Some abstraction is also apparent in the shift from visual to aural imagery in describing God's self-manifestations or theophanies.

某些抽离在从纳贡者到听见神的自我宣称,或者神显的想像中也是十分明显的。

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After the cold war ended, though, this self-regulating and rather self-important culture has come under scrutiny.

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While those founding truths about liberty and equality may have been self-evident, they are not self-perpetuating.

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If self-regulation worked then presumably money managers, insurance companies and banks would be similarly self-regulated.

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