For millennia the average person's stance toward providing for himself had been, ultimately I'm on my own.

几千年来，一般人对于养活自己的立场是，最终我要靠自己。

I was left to cope on my own.

就剩下我一个人来单独对付。

I like to be on my own sometimes.

有时候我喜欢一个人待着。

I decided to branch out on my own.

我决定自己开业。

It's time I launched out on my own.

该是我自己创业的时候了。

I just wanted to explore on my own.

我只是想独自考察一下。

I'm all on my own today.

今天就我一个人。

I work best on my own.

我独立工作最出色。

I'll only take the job on my own terms.

我只会按照自己的条件接受这份工作。

I knew it was time I struck out on my own.

我知道我该独立谋生了。

No one sent me, I am here on my own account.

没有人派我，我自己来的。

I'd rather meet him here on my own home ground.

我宁愿在我自己的地盘上见他。

I felt pretty lonely last year being on my own.

我去年独自生活时感到特别孤独。

No offence, but I'd really like to be on my own.

我无意冒犯，但我确实想自己一个人。

She wanted me to strike out on my own, buy a business.

她想让我独立开辟新路，购买一家公司。

My father didn't mind whom I married, so long as I could stand on my own two feet and wasn't dependent on my husband.

我父亲并不介意我跟谁结婚，只要我能够自立、不靠丈夫就行。

I can wash my hair on my own.

我可以独自洗头发。

Mrs. Haworth greatly developed my ability by helping me learn to solve my problems on my own.

霍沃斯夫人帮助我学会自己解决问题，极大地培养了我的能力。

I put on my own vest and rushed out of the house before my mother could stop me.

我穿上自己的背心，在母亲阻止我之前冲出了家门。

I fixed the phone on my own yesterday.

我昨天自己修理了手机。

I will manage all my affairs on my own from this day on.

从这天开始，我将要独立处理我的一切事务。

Later I studied on my own as well, but my progress was still slow.

后来我也自学了，但我的进步还是很慢。

Second, true happiness should be something that I can obtain on my own.

第二，真正的幸福应该是我能通过自身努力获得的。

I often end up working late and I don't fancy eating in a restaurant on my own.

我经常工作到很晚，不喜欢一个人在餐馆吃饭。

While many like to join package tours for convenience, I prefer to travel on my own.

为了方便起见，许多人喜欢参加旅行团旅行，但我更喜欢独自旅行。

Based on my own experience, you will pick up a language faster if you speak it as much as possible.

根据我自己的经验，如果你尽可能多地说一门语言，学习这门语言就更快。

Lacking a mirror image in the mother who raised me, I had to seek my identity as a woman on my own.

由于没有母亲抚养我长大，我缺乏母亲的镜像，不得不自己寻找作为女性的身份特征。

Here are some others key tips based on my own speaking experience and what I've noticed in other good speakers.

这是其它一些关键技巧，根据我自己的演讲经验以及从其他优秀演讲者身上发现的总结的。

Real criticism is not meant to find obvious mistakes, so if she found any—the type I could have found on my own—I had to start from scratch.

真正的批评并不是为了发现那些明显的错误，所以如果她发现了任何我自己就能察觉到的错误，我就得从头开始。

Even now that he is working steadily, he said, "I can't afford to pay my monthly mortgage payments on my own, so I have to rent rooms out to people to make that happen."

即使现在他工作稳定，他说：“我付不起每月的按揭贷款，所以我不得不把房间租给别人才能还得了贷款。”