self reliance

基本解释

The tea party is a group of diverse citizens who believe in small government and self reliance.
茶党是由相信小政府和自力更生的来自不同阶层的市民组成。
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His father's guiding policy had been Juche ("self reliance"); the son's is Songeun ("military first").
他的父亲的指导政策是“主体”（自力更生），他作为儿子则是“军事第一”。
Lack of self reliance.
缺乏对自己的信任。
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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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