自给自足

In "The Dollmaker", a novel published to great acclaim in 1954 but now all but forgotten, Harriette Arnow chronicles Gertie Nevels's struggles as she trades rural self-sufficient poverty in Kentucky for urban grinding poverty in Detroit.

在书中，作者哈里耶特·阿诺记载了格蒂·涅维尔斯为摆脱肯塔基州那种自给自足的贫困生活，投入了底特律都市的极度贫困，在此期间她的种种挣扎。

If you're wondering what I'm talking about, here's what you need to know: our grandfathers lived in a world of largely self-sufficient, inward-looking national economies — but our great-great grandfathers lived, as we do, in a world of large-scale international trade and investment, a world destroyed by nationalism.

如果你不清楚我这种说法的依据，那你必须得先了解：我们的父辈生活在基本自给自足、并依靠内部驱动的国民经济世界中；而我们，却生活在一个拥有巨大国际贸易和投资量，并且被民族主义破坏的世界中。

The hero Henchard is a self-sufficient man, who, by nature, belongs to the old rural culture.

主人公亨察尔是一个自给自足的男子，他的基本属性，是属于旧的农村文化。

Professor Hess says a major value of sustainable agriculture is making good use of what you have.

Hess 说农业自给自足的最大价值是更好使用你所拥有的东西。

The remarkable thing about this hijacker is that it is self-sustaining, and it is self-reinforcing: the more of it around, the more it makes of itself.

这个劫持者最不同寻常的非凡之处在于，（1）它是自给自足的，（2）它不断的自我强化：当它周围的物质越多，它就攫取了越多。

It is impossible not to be struck by the disproportion,truly incommensurable, that exists between the satisfactions this man derives from society and the satisfactions that he could provide for himself if he were reduced to his own resources.

这个人从社会那里得到的满足和他在自给自足情况下能够到的满足根本不成比例，简直不可比。有谁不为这个事实所打动？

The key to innocuous production is to normalize the enterprise operations.

生产曾经是有益无害的，例如在自给自足的自然经济条件下的相当一段时间里就是这样。

The White House has enough land to become self-sufficient in food -- a model of Jeffersonian independence and thrift.

白宫有足够的土地来自给自足，杰弗逊主义者独立节俭的楷模。

Jerker Johansson, head of UBS's investment bank, rules out a spin-off of the unit, saying it aims to be "completely self-funding under the umbrella of a strong UBS" by year-end.

瑞银投行部门主管于涵俊排除了剥离该部门的可能，并表示，其目标是在年底前成为"强大瑞银的保护伞下一个资金完全自给自足的部门"。

The way to make self-sufficiency work on a small scale is to resist the temptation to buy a tractor and other expensive laborsaving devices.

小范围的自给自足的途径是抵制诱惑，不去购置拖拉机和其它昂贵的节省劳力的机械。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。