1.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。
2.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。
3.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。
4.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。
5.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。
6.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。
7.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。
8.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。
9.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。
10.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。