I don't mean an emergency like the self-defensive counter-attack on Viet Nam. That kind of incident is easy to cope with.

我讲的不是像对越自卫还击战这样的事，这样的事好应付。

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Yes, Apple has always held that market share didn't matter as much as profitability, but that attitude seemed increasingly like a defensive self-justification as its market share bottomed near 3%.

是的，苹果即使长期保持着同样的市场份额也不会影响其获利，但这态度看上去就像是自我防御，其市场份额近乎低的只剩3%。

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The solution doesn't lie in puritanical self-restraint or in a defensive insistence that there's nothing wrong.

解决的方式不在于像清教徒那样进行自我约束，或者是进行无意义的持续辩护。

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Even on those two highly favorable (and not very realistic) assumptions, the judges rated the majority of the self-defensive gun uses as falling into one of the two illegal categories.

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But he cherished his privacy and disdained defensive self-publicity.

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Kouffman Sherman adds that the arm cross is a self-protecting behavior that reveals a defensive side to your personality.

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