People learned self-reliance because they had to.

人们学会了自立因为他们不得不这样做。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

I think it would be a gross distortion of reality to say that they were motivated by self-interest.

我认为说他们被自身利益所驱使是对事实的公然扭曲。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

Paying children too much attention when they misbehave can be self-defeating.

孩子有不良行为时，小题大做可能适得其反。

《牛津词典》

They say the Earps and Doc Holliday did not fire in self-defense, but used the law as an excuse for murder.

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They became more self-sufficient, less dependent on other people as rated by themselves and as rated by their family members.

变得更加自立，更少依懒他们，不论是他们自己,还是家庭成员的评估都是如此。

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This process is called self-renewal, so that's one important process of property stem cells, that they're capable of self-renewal.

这种过程称为自我更新,所以这是干细胞的一个重要性质,它们能够自我更新

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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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They now have a self-management institute and they are helping other organizations learn about self-management.

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And so Europeans should be sceptical when non-democratic regimes say they can self-correct without independent checks and balances.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne