| 词汇 | self-sufficient |
| 释义 | self-sufficient adjective uk /ˌself.səˈfɪʃ.ənt/ us /ˌself.səˈfɪʃ.ənt/ C2 able to provide everything you need, especially food, for yourself without the help of other people: （尤指食物）自给自足的 The programme aims to make the country self-sufficient in food production and to cut energy imports.这个项目旨在使国家在粮食上能自给自足，并减少能源进口。 They were busy with growing vegetables and all the other chores of a self-sufficient rural life. able to take care of yourself, to be happy, or to deal with problems, without help from other people: She's a very self-sufficient young woman. He had never had to make a decision in his life but now he had to be entirely self-sufficient. Within three years, Pakistan became self-sufficient. They recall the village as a tough but proudly self-sufficient place, with no roads, electricity or running water. As the baby becomes more self-sufficient, she'll seek out her own sources of amusement. We were brought up to be independent and self-sufficient. Unaided and working alone fair fend for yourself go it aloneidiom high and dry independent independently self-help self-reliant self-sufficiency self-taught single-handed single-handedly stand stand-alone unassisted under your own steamidiom unforced unguided unserved yourself You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Farming - general words self-sufficiencynoun[ U ]uk /ˌself.səˈfɪʃ.ən.si/ us /ˌself.səˈfɪʃ.ən.si/ self-sufficient | American Dictionaryself-sufficient adjective us/ˌself·səˈfɪʃ·ənt/ able to provide what is necessary without the help of others: a self-sufficient economy/person self-sufficiencynoun[ U ]us/ˌself·səˈfɪʃ·ən·si/ They showed their self-sufficiency by growing their own vegetables. self-sufficient | Business Englishself-sufficient adjective FINANCE, COMMERCEuk /ˌselfsəˈfɪʃənt/us able to provide everything you need for yourself, especially food, without buying from or being helped by others: be self-sufficient in sthCurrently, the UK is only 62% self-sufficient in beef. Building its own marketing organisation in the US would allow the company to become financially self-sufficient and market its own products. Examples of self-sufficientself-sufficient For the most part, these groups were independent and self-sufficient. The building was developed with 1.20m wide self-sufficient modules. The development of a parallel market economy in recent years has given the false impression that the camps could be, or are nearly, self-sufficient. In both cases, a self-sufficient pride is plausibly depicted as directing attention away from real accomplishments. It shows the existence of important links between an industry that has usually been defined as a self-sufficient enclave and its hinterland. It is already a big relatively integrated and self-sufficient area. On his view, external circumstances can affect virtue - thus, it is not entirely self-sufficient. Why is such melodic eloquence not allowed to be self-sufficient? With colonial rule firmly entrenched, the administration turned to making the colonies economically self-sufficient. One's fellow creatures must be neither self-sufficient nor beyond harm. These competing constructions of older people as frail\\healthy, dependent\\independent, self-sufficient\\a burden, are increasingly exposed to public view. Throughout, the bar structures and their subdivisions are governed by self-sufficient, more or less ad hoc numerological and proportional devices. On the other, they relocated small groups of refugees who became self-sufficient thanks to a daily government subsidy. While religion is always susceptible to the sceptical challenge as to truth, its acceptance at least provides a self-sufficient ground for morality. It was not in itself and never could be a self-sufficient standard of truth and virtue. See all examples of self-sufficient These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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