We must rely on our own efforts.
我们必须依靠自己的努力。
We must repose mainly on our own efforts in accomplishing the task.
我们必须主要依靠自己的努力来完成这项任务。
We hope for foreign aid but cannot be dependent on it; we depend on our own efforts, on the creative power of the whole army and the entire people.
我们希望有外援，但是我们不能依赖它，我们依靠自己的努力，依靠全体军民的创造力。
The parallel between a single individual's success and the bootstrap effort of the mass of ghetto youth is and remains too tenuous微小 to comport with reality .
个人的成就与广大黑人区青年依靠自己的努力取得成功之间的可比性极其微小，很不现实。
pull oneself up by one's bootstraps
靠自己的努力改善境遇
The improvement of the peasants' livelihood depends mainly on their own efforts to increase production.
农民生活的改善，主要依靠农民自己努力发展生产。
Success in study mainly depends on one's own efforts.
学习主要靠自己努力。
We conquer all diffcult, depend on our power.
我们依靠自己的力量，克服了一切困难。
We should rely mainly on our own strength to defeat the Japanese aggressors;
战胜日寇主要依靠自己的力量；
She decided to go ahead on her own.
她决定依靠自己的力量干下去。
By his own talents and efforts, he has secured for the family a good social position and a comparatively rich life.
他依靠自己的才干和努力，为我们的家庭获得了良好的社会地位和比较宽裕的生活。
He chronicled the story of a self-made man.
他记叙了一个靠自己努力成功的人的故事。
With great perseverance and untiring industry, he prospered.
他靠自己的坚毅顽强和不懈努力发达起来了。
He was struggling to make the transformation from single man to responsible husband.
他正在努力使自己由单身汉变为可靠的丈夫。
III. China Can Basically Achieve Self-Sufficiency in Grain Through Self-Reliance
三、中国能够依靠自己的力量实现粮食基本自给
It is impossible to achieve by negotiation what one is not willing to pursue by one's own effort.
凡是不愿意靠自己的努力去实现的目标，靠谈判是实现不了的。
This country was able to win the war off its own bat.
这个国家能依靠自己的力量打赢这场战争。
Succeeded by dint of hard work.
依靠艰苦努力取得成功