The idea is that if a country had to be completely self-sufficient, most of the developed world would be unable to do that (without losing a lot of its population first).

理念认为，如果标准是一个国家必须自给自足，那么大多数发达国家将做不到这一点(首先在不流失一大部分人口的情况下)。

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In times of globalization and internationalization, we will be unable to do anything without unity.

在一个全球化、国际化的时代，离开了团结和合作，我们将寸步难行。

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They may be very withdrawn and irritable but at the same time unable to do without your help and support.

他们可能非常内向、易怒，但没有你的帮助和支持又无法撑下去。

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Still, there's one player he thinks he would be unable to do without: Robinson Cano.

WSJ: Cano homers twice in Yankees' win over Blue Jays

Of course there are those with terrible conditions - locked-in syndrome, various forms of paralysis - who may wish to die, but be quite unable to do so without help, but for the vast majority of us suicide would be possible as a lone activity for some time after we knew that we were incontrovertibly dying.

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