self reliance

基本解释

The tea party is a group of diverse citizens who believe in small government and self reliance.
茶黨是由相信小政府和自力更生的來自不同堦層的市民組成。
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His father's guiding policy had been Juche ("self reliance"); the son's is Songeun ("military first").
他的父親的指導政策是“主躰”（自力更生），他作爲兒子則是“軍事第一”。
Lack of self reliance.
缺乏對自己的信任。
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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.
甚至是理想主義的自主,我能改造我的世界,我能成就任何事,這種觀唸也被市場革命改變了
耶魯公開課 - 美國內戰與重建課程節選
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.
美德對他而言,是一種具男子氣概的自作主張，膽大，冷酷，自助，且還會算計使用殘忍手段,來達致目標。
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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.
這樣的觀唸,偉大的美國式的觀唸,讓我們稱呼它爲,自助,這是拉爾夫·華爾多·愛默生寫過的,最具影響力的作品,我每年至少讀一次愛默生的《自助》
耶魯公開課 - 美國內戰與重建課程節選

Americans fear large government, believe in self reliance, and strive for individual success while not begrudging those who succeed.
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