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self-help

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++ˌself-ˈhelp noun [uncountable]  INDEPENDENT PERSONthe use of your own efforts to deal with your problems, instead of depending on other people 自助,自立 a shelf of self-help books 一架子励志类图书 Our program emphasizes self-help. 我们这个计划强调的是自助。 a self-help group for single parents 一个单身父母自助团体
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self-helpself-help booksa self-help groupToday she runs her own New Age self-help business, Kismet, employing four staff.There was a great deal of communal self-help in the Engineering School.It transforms the police officer from an investigator and enforcer into a catalyst in a process of community self-help.With a stronger private sector, a more vital ethic of self-help might also emerge.Organised self-help groups also rely on the beneficial effects of talking and discussion.There would be no point n even Samuel Smiles's self-help, if all is actually governed by invariable law.He is aware that what he is involved in now is nothing less than Thatcherite self-help.His career suggests that he was capable of combining a sense of duty with an urge to self-help.self-help booksShe had been reading a lot of self-help books and this was her conclusion.Good writing often reveals painful truths, said the authors in a panel on self-help books.Our current top 10 bestsellers include seven self-help books, so Airlift is more our style.
ˌself-ˈhelp nounChineseSyllable
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self-help
ˌself-ˈhelp noun [uncountable]
the use of your own efforts to deal with your problems, instead of depending on other people:
    a shelf of self-help books
    Our program emphasizes self-help.
    a self-help group for single parents


self-helpBrE /ˌself ˈhelp/ 🔊NAmE /ˌself ˈhelp/ 🔊 noun [uncountable] the act of relying on your own efforts and abilities in order to solve your problems, rather than depending on other people for help 自助;自立 self-help adjective [only before noun] a self-help discussion group for people suffering from depression (= whose members help each other) 抑郁症患者自助讨论小组