2N-UNCOUNT [oft poss NOUN](人的)独立,自立 Someone's independence is the fact that they do not rely on other people. (人的)独立,自立
He was afraid of losing his independence.
他害怕失去自己的独立性。
...a woman's independence, capability, and power.
一个女人的独立、能力与权力
SYN self-sufficiency, self-reliance, self-sustenance
Quotations
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycleGloria Steinem
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude after our own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitudeRalph Waldo Emerson`Self-Reliance'
He travels the fastest who travels aloneRudyard KiplingThe Story of the Gadsbys
If we had independence tomorrow, life would change very little. But for nationalists, that is not a reason not to want itInaki Perez Beotegi