self-sustaining

Definitions

Common Collocations

• 1.self-sustaining ecosystem自我维持的生态系统
• 2.self-sustaining community自给自足的社区
• 3.self-sustaining economy自立的经济体
• 4.[self-sustaining cycle]自我循环

Example Sentences

• 1.

  The remote village has become self-sustaining through solar energy and local farming.

• 2.

  Scientists hope the Mars colony will eventually be self-sustaining.

• 3.

  A self-sustaining ecosystem requires a careful balance of producers and consumers.