Eventually, I earned a Ph.D. in linguistics close to the age of 50, a self imposed deadline.
我给自己定的上限是五十岁，后来终于在逼近五十的当口拿到了语言学博士学位。
He returned home after eleven years of self-imposed exile.
经历了11年的自我流放后他回家了。
What does Maryanne Taylor think of self-imposed sleeplessness?
玛丽安·泰勒如何看待自我强加的失眠？
Self-imposed sleeplessness has "become a bit of a status symbol", says Taylor, a misguided measure to prove how powerful and productive you are.
泰勒说，自我强加的失眠“在某种程度上已经成为一种地位的象征”， 用这种方法来证明自己有多么强大和高效是具有误导性的。
A group of prominent Burmese comedians has returned to Burma from self-imposed exile in Thailand weeks after the new civilian President urged citizens overseas to come home.
在新的平民总统呼吁海外公民回国几周之后，一些著名的缅甸喜剧演员结束在泰国的自我放逐回到国内。
Add to the mix a self-imposed deadline to deliver a working version in this column, pause the project, and go gain some practical experience, as I did with XM.
正如我对XM所做的那样，为交付本专栏文章中的一个工作版本，而对此方案添加一个自我限制的截止期限，暂停项目，然后去获取一些实际经验。
Whatever the causes and effects, however, the freedom of press laws in the United States mean that any change to the style employed by the media must be self-imposed.
然而，无论其源于何处，也无论其将终于何处，在美国的新闻自由法中，媒体任何报道形式的改变都必须是自愿施行的。
You are still there, holding your faith in their true strength and inner power, encouraging them to go beyond their self-imposed limitations and be all that they can be.
你仍然在那，保持着你对他们真正内在气力的信仰，鼓励他们超越自己强加于自己的限制，成为自己本可成为的人。
Friday will see one of Mr Obama's election promises broken with the expiration of his self-imposed deadline for the closing of guantanamo Bay.
周五，我们还将会见证奥巴马先生在一项竞选承诺上食言，因为他自己施加的关闭关塔那摩监狱的最后期限即将到期。
Part of the reason so many people spend too much, or fail to stick to self-imposed budgets, is because parting with our money has become an abstraction in our increasingly cashless society.
如此之众的人花费过多，或未能坚守自设预算的原因之一是：在这个现金用得越来越少的社会，花钱变得抽象了。
But India was also throwing off many self-imposed shackles, and has since thrust itself forward.
但是印度也甩掉了许多自身背负的包袱，并自此奋力前行。
If you don't have deadlines imposed by clients or a boss, then you'll need to have self-imposed deadlines.
如果你的客户或者老板没有给你规定最后期限，那么你得给你自己设定了。
"Once we accept even self-imposed regulation, the culture of the company will change in bad ways," one former Microsoft executive told Wired at the time.
“一旦我们完全接受自己强加给自己的规则，那么，公司的文化将按不良的方式改变，”一位前微软高管在那段时间告诉《连线》杂志。
When his self-imposed deadline passed on Jan. 22, there were still 196 detainees housed in at the prison.
当他这一自许的承诺在22号到期的时候，仍有196人关押在那里。
Some are self-imposed and come from my own ignoranceof realities.
而另一些则是自我强加的，来源于对自身现实的无知。
He wanted me to use my good relationship with Shara and Assad to keep the Syrians happy while he said as little as possible during his self-imposed waiting period.
他希望我利用和沙拉及阿萨德的良好关系，保持叙利亚代表的愉快心情，他本人则在他自己创造的拖延期内尽量少说话。
If Google doesn't give itself back the freedom to compete with the reality of the outside world, it will quickly find itself a self-imposed victim of the Microsoft Syndrome.
如果谷歌不重新解放自己，与外部现实世界展开竞争，很快它便会发现，自己已心甘情愿地成了微软综合症的牺牲品。
Sometimes, they won't follow up after an interview-or they will miss their self-imposed deadlines.
有时候，面试后他们不会跟进——或者超过自己设定好的最后期限。
I was trapped by self-imposed expectations and continually reset the bar so it was always out of reach, the fatal flaw of any classic over-achiever.
我陷入一种思维定式，把各种目标强加到自己身上，而且总是不断调高预期，让自己永远都够不着，这是典型的完美主义者的臭毛病。
They started on what Gage calls a self-imposed engineering challenge: Make electrodes for $100.
他们开始进行了一次盖奇所谓的自愿承受的工程方面的挑战：只花100美元制造电极。
And he evokes with uncomfortable clarity the self-imposed poverty and discomfort of the Orwell household.
莱比道夫以令人不快的清晰笔触解读了奥威尔一家自甘自愿的贫苦和不安。
The OBR judges that the chancellor will meet his self-imposed fiscal targets.
OBR判断财政大臣将达成他制定的每一个财政年度目标。
And besides, the days of having to take anything other than self-imposed tests are long behind me.
另外，我必须记忆(除开为了测试强记的东西)的日子还长着呢。
And besides, the days of having to take anything other than self-imposed tests are long behind me.
另外，我必须记忆(除开为了测试强记的东西)的日子还长着呢。
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