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self-reliance n.依靠自己;自力更生。

self-renunciation

He had developed a kind of self-reliance and smoothness of address such as one would scarcely have credited him with three years before . 他就養成了一切憑自己,不依靠別人的品質和說話的才干,3年前,人家才不會說他具備了這些東西呢。

Independence does not mean shutting the door on the world , nor does self-reliance mean blind opposition to everything foreign . 獨立自主不是閉關自守,自力更生不是盲目排外。

They survived by developing self-reliance to an extraordinary degree . 他們所以能夠活下去,完全靠的是自力更生。

Self-reliance is sneered at as an absurd suburban pretension . 依靠自己被譏笑為一種荒唐的偏狹的見解。

One must not go to extreme in applying the principle of self-reliance . 不要把自力更生絕對化。