| 1. | She proposed to earn her living honestly . 她打算要光明磊落自食其力。 |
| 2. | It is time you stood on your own two feet . 是你自食其力的时候了。 |
| 3. | I ached to be of an age to take care of myself . 我巴望能到自食其力的年龄。 |
| 4. | They live respectably from hand to mouth . 他们过着可尊敬的,自食其力的生活。 |
| 5. | I've paid my own way . 我能够自食其力。 |
| 6. | The boy has reached an adult age and ought to be earning his own living . 这孩子已经(到了)成年,应该自食其力了。 |
| 7. | He wasn't going to overdo it, but those two boys were going to earn their salt . 他不想做得太过分,可是这两个男孩以后得自食其力。 |
| 8. | When they were grown and able to do for themselves, he joined the athenian army . 当他们长大成人,能自食其力时,他参加了雅典军队。 |
| 9. | The place of our retreat was in a little neighbourhood consisting of farmers, who tilled their own grounds . 我们退隐的地方,邻近都是自食其力的种田人家。 |
| 10. | He represented himself as a hard-working, self-made small businessman victimized by mindless, bullying bureaucracy . 他把自己说成是一个勤勤恳恳、自食其力的小商人,深受冷酷无情、扶强欺弱的官僚机构所害。 |