self-sufficiency

For years we were told that self-sufficiency was an outmoded concept, and that it was safe to rely on world markets for food supplies.

很多年来，我们被告知自给自足是一种过时的观念；依靠国际市场提供食物是安全的。

Failure might be a good thing if it prompted a review of the self-sufficiency obsession.

如果收购失败能够促使中国对执迷于自给自足的做法进行重新评估，有可能是一件好事。

This turns the question of who will feed China into whether China can maintain self-sufficiency in grain production in the next 20 years.

问题就由谁养活中国变成了中国能否在未来20年保持自给自足。

The money saved gets my family a little closer to financial freedom, and I also feel a bit closer to self-sufficiency as well.

节省下的钱使我家人经济上有更多的自由，而我同样感受到我更能自给自足。

Self-sufficiency contributes nothing to the quest for reasonable prices, for it increases the total cost of food.

自给无助于对合理价格的探索，因为它增加了食品的总成本。

To erect a sense which we lack into a source of truth, is a fine blind man's self-sufficiency.

把人们所没有的一种感觉定为真理的本原，那真是盲人的一种大胆的杰作。

Self-sufficiency: They have to be able to self-manage, self-motivate, self-organize and think critically for themselves.

自给自足：他们必须有自我管理、自我激励、自我组织和批判性地思考的能力。

Now, for people like Isaac and Abdi, Alima and Muslima, all that is gone, and with it independence and self-sufficiency.

现在，对于像艾萨克、阿卜迪、阿里玛和穆斯里玛这些人，一切都已过去，随之而去的还有独立和自足。

The condition of the people was one of local self-sufficiency, and local customs displaced formal law.

人们自给自足地生活，用地方惯例代替正规法律。

He said Japan should join hands with China to secure farm products as the nation's food self-sufficiency ratio has been declining.

他说，鉴于日本粮食自给率正逐年下降，日本应当与中国携手合作，保证农产品安全。

Self-sufficiency can be one of the best parts of travel, Theroux says.

泰鲁说，自给自足是旅行最美妙的地方之一。

As for self-sufficiency, I'm skeptical of that on a timescale of less than many hundreds of years.

至于在不到几百年的时间里实现自给自足，我对此持怀疑态度。

Laodicea was a well-to-do city. Yet that very wealth led to its delusion of self-sufficiency.

老底嘉是一个富裕的城市，然而富裕使他们妄想可以自给自足。

On her Web site, Savage describes her boat as a "perfect showcase for sustainability and self-sufficiency. "

在她的网站上，萨维奇形容为一个“可持续性和自给自足的完美展示她的小船。”

Export taxes on cash crops have also been used to encourage the production of domestic food crops in order to attain self-sufficiency.

还使用经济作物征收出口税以鼓励国内粮食作物的生产，从而达到自给自足。

Think of it as strategic partial self-sufficiency. Think of it as a step on the road to freedom.

把它看成是具有战略意义局部的自给自足，同时把它看作是通向自由之路的垫脚石。

But I refuse to call the realisation of self, self-sufficiency.

但是我拒绝把它们称作自我的实现与自我的满足。

Chinese policy walls are trying to maintain the country's vaunted 95% self-sufficiency in grains.

中国的政策正试图保持中国所宣称的95%的粮食自给自足率。

If nonprofits are going to be serious about financial self-sufficiency, they must adopt more aggressive pricing policies.

如果非营利组织打算认真地对待经济上自给自足，他们必须采用更积极的定价政策。

The FAO believes one of the solutions to reverse the current food shortages is to boost small family run farms and self sufficiency.

粮食及农业组织认为其中一个方法，解决现今粮荒问题，是激励小家庭经营农场和自给。