自给自足

For thousands of years, China was a self-contained civilization with very little contact with Europe.

在过去的几千年中，中国曾是自给自足的社会，与欧洲的联系极少。

In reality, this will be the world's only self-contained golf city.

事实上，这里将成为世界上唯一一座自给自足的高尔夫之城。

Steel companies proceeded to control the ore deposits, mine their own coal, set up their own railways, make their own equipment, house their own workers, and strive for self-containment within the borders of a gigantic company.

正因为如此，钢铁公司才要控制矿脉，采自己的煤，建自己的铁路、制造自己的设备、为自己的员工提供住房，并且努力在一个巨人般的公司内部达到某种自给自足。

The second chapter introduces important issues and theories in Western thoughts about urban planning and its harmonies with the modern vision. These include above all minimalism since the 1960's, with its redefined sense of space and new site-specific rule of application, and modernism which champions such concepts as self-containment and solo possession.

而第二章从西方空间规画史与近代艺术思潮中，艺术与空间之间关系演变的影响，讨论传统中公共艺术以纪念物的形式介入城市空间，尝试与整体空间和谐并存，达到在空间上尺度与比例的和谐关系的方式，一九六○年代中末叶低限主义运动对於空间观念的改变，场域限定的应用，与作品自给自足、独立自若之现代主义艺术表现进行比较。

But their optimism c an be self-fulfilling.

但是他们的乐观也有可能是自给自足的

Sometimes you get full satisfactory service, and sometimes you have to be satisfied with self-service

有时候你能够得到全方位满意的服务，不过还有时候你只能通过自给自足达到满意的程度

"There is none other God but Thee, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting."

"上帝唯祢，别无其他。祢是救苦救难者，自给自足者。"

The purpose in all this is to achieve self-sufficiency.

凡此都是为了达到自给自足的目的。

But self-sufficiency is still a long way off.

但自给自足仍还有漫长的路要走。

And in 2008 the country achieved rice self-sufficiency for the first time in 24 years.

而在2008年，整个国家24年首次在事物的自给自足上获得了成功。

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。