Definition of one's individuality and role in life.
自我定位，自我界定
the struggle for national self-definition
民族独立的斗争。
Example sentencesExamples
Crocodile Dundee exemplifies and symbolises the difficulty of achieving national self-definition within international cultural markets.
This perhaps contradictory self-definition was still relevant in the referendum on the monarchy in 1999.
As the lone Democratic contender who has run for president before, Gephardt instinctively understands the vital role that self-definition plays in the campaign.
I'm struck again by the contrasting optimism and pessimism of our instinctive approaches to questions of national self-definition.
The show of mastery and triumphant self-definition evidenced in the modular text is clearly a simulation of what is perceived as the liberating effect of interactive media.
The announcement speech is the most overt act of self-definition in any presidential campaign.
This self-definition, the act of choosing which traditions and causes to link ourselves to, gives our lives purpose.
Of course, a little difference is a beautiful thing, as is the freedom to mix and match the various wonderful opportunities modern life provides for self-definition.
Like most policy disputes during presidential campaigns, the tax fight is as much about political self-definition as it is about fiscal policy.
Families became less comfortable with the secular component of this definition as it threatened their own social self-definition.
The alchemical perspective lends its adherents the incredible power of self-definition.
It's a gross infringement on self-definition.
This kind of self-definition has dominated human societies for most of the 6,000-plus years of organised civilisation.
In Mantua, the preparation of food is so central to questions of local pride and self-definition that it has become a subject of sociological study.
They know that if the monarchy falls, an important ingredient of Canadian self-definition will cease to exist.
Rather, a construed external image assumes meaning for an organizational member to the extent that it corresponds with the individual's self-definition.
We are also admitted into her struggle for self-definition as she tries to make sense of alienation, loss and destruction.
These doctrines and guarantees are central to the American experience and remain essential to our present-day self-definition and national identity.
The difficulty lies with the modern self-definition of the Chinese state.
There could be no more profound a transgression, for a society whose self-definition is caste, than marrying across caste.
Definition of self-definition in US English:
self-definition
nounˈˌself ˌdefəˈniSHən
Definition of one's individuality and one's role in life; such definition of a group by its members.
自我定位，自我界定
the struggle for national self-definition
民族独立的斗争。
Example sentencesExamples
It's a gross infringement on self-definition.
There could be no more profound a transgression, for a society whose self-definition is caste, than marrying across caste.
We are also admitted into her struggle for self-definition as she tries to make sense of alienation, loss and destruction.
This kind of self-definition has dominated human societies for most of the 6,000-plus years of organised civilisation.
As the lone Democratic contender who has run for president before, Gephardt instinctively understands the vital role that self-definition plays in the campaign.
The difficulty lies with the modern self-definition of the Chinese state.
Crocodile Dundee exemplifies and symbolises the difficulty of achieving national self-definition within international cultural markets.
I'm struck again by the contrasting optimism and pessimism of our instinctive approaches to questions of national self-definition.
Rather, a construed external image assumes meaning for an organizational member to the extent that it corresponds with the individual's self-definition.
Families became less comfortable with the secular component of this definition as it threatened their own social self-definition.
The show of mastery and triumphant self-definition evidenced in the modular text is clearly a simulation of what is perceived as the liberating effect of interactive media.
These doctrines and guarantees are central to the American experience and remain essential to our present-day self-definition and national identity.
In Mantua, the preparation of food is so central to questions of local pride and self-definition that it has become a subject of sociological study.
This perhaps contradictory self-definition was still relevant in the referendum on the monarchy in 1999.
The alchemical perspective lends its adherents the incredible power of self-definition.
Like most policy disputes during presidential campaigns, the tax fight is as much about political self-definition as it is about fiscal policy.
This self-definition, the act of choosing which traditions and causes to link ourselves to, gives our lives purpose.
Of course, a little difference is a beautiful thing, as is the freedom to mix and match the various wonderful opportunities modern life provides for self-definition.
The announcement speech is the most overt act of self-definition in any presidential campaign.
They know that if the monarchy falls, an important ingredient of Canadian self-definition will cease to exist.