If a country or group is self-sufficient, it is able to produce or make everything that it needs. 自给自足的
adjective [原级] 自给自足的；极为自负的；过于自信的
Although she had various boyfriends, Madeleine was, and remains, fiercely self-sufficient. 尽管有过各种各样男朋友，马德琳过去和现在一直都非常自立。
adj. 自给自足的；极为自负的；过于自信的
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- The swift growth of this merchant marine diversified the northern colonial economy and made it more self-sufficient. 这艘商船的迅速发展使北方殖民地经济多样化，使其自给自足的能力更强。
- After 1815 improved transportation enabled more and more western farmers to escape a self-sufficient way of life and enter a national market economy. 1815年以后，交通的改善使越来越多的西方农民摆脱了自给自足的生活方式，进入了国家市场经济。