1 ADJ-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
2 ADJ-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
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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。
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He'd created a tiny, self-sufficient world for himself.
他为自己创造了一个自我满足的小小世界。
SYN independent, self-contained, self-reliant, self-sustaining