1ADJ-GRADED [usually verb-link ADJ](国家或团体)自给自足的,自立的 If a country or group is self-sufficient, it is able to produce or make everything that it needs. (国家或团体)自给自足的,自立的
This enabled the country to become self-sufficient in sugar. [+ in]
这使得该国的食糖能自给自足。
Using traditional methods poor farmers can be virtually self-sufficient.
采用传统的方法,贫穷的农民基本上能自给自足。
2ADJ-GRADED (人)独立生活的,自立的 Someone who is self-sufficient is able to live happily without anyone else. (人)独立生活的,自立的
Although she had various boyfriends, Madeleine was, and remains, fiercely self-sufficient.
尽管有过各种各样的男朋友,马德琳过去和现在一直都非常自立。
He'd created a tiny, self-sufficient world for himself.