The UNHCR says it is important to make sure the repatriation of the Mauritanian refugees is sustainable and that the returnees become self-sufficient.

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

They became more self-sufficient, less dependent on other people as rated by themselves and as rated by their family members.

变得更加自立，更少依懒他们，不论是他们自己,还是家庭成员的评估都是如此。

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as a form of work that will allow him to be self-sufficient and self-determining.

允许他自给自足,自我决定的一项工作。

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Returning from a month's holiday in Europe, President Abdoulaye Wade says he sympathizes with the suffering of those whose homes are flooded but says this year's rains are a mixed blessing as they will lead to bigger harvests that will make Senegal nearly food self-sufficient.

VOA: standard.2009.09.08

Now a sign traditionally understood is self-sufficient, self-contained.

传统意义上的符号是自给自足的。

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It actually, it's been shown, seems to foreshadow the political philosophy of Milton's much younger contemporary, John Locke -- the notion that nature demands that every human individual has just enough, is given just enough to be self-sufficient.

事实上这一论点似乎提前预兆了,比弥尔顿年轻许多的同代人，他们的政治哲学，约翰·洛克--他认为自然要求,每个自然人拥有足够自己使用的，每个人只得到足够自给的就够了。

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