1. He strapped a cannon to Bootstrap's bootstraps.
他把老比尔捆在一尊铁炮上
2. I'm sure I'm not the only who felt, after hearing it, like I could have a dream again: of being able to afford to raise a family; achieve greater financial success than my father (an Irish immigrant and construction worker who, you might say, pulled himself up by his bootstraps and live in a prosperous, contented country that's respected around the world.
我相信，我不是唯一一个在听了他的讲演后，感觉找回了梦想：能够支撑和养育家庭；比我的父亲更富足（我的父亲是一个爱尔兰移民，建筑工人，或许你可以把他也算作靠自己出人头地）；身在一个繁荣、自足、被世界所尊重的国家中生活。
3. I believe in pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps.
我深信一个人必须用自己的靴带把自己撑起来。
4. In a sense, the market seemed to be hauling itself up by its own bootstraps.
某种意义上，市场的努力终将是徒劳的。
5. Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps even if you don't have boots.
自己努力吧，尽管你连双鞋都没有。
6. However, I think many of us still believe that we should be able to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps - and that if we haven't been able to, there's something wrong with us.
然而，我想我们中的很多人仍旧相信我们能靠自己的力量出人头地。而当不能达到这个目标时，我们会自问自己出了什么问题。
7. Janice lost her job but she pulled herself up by her bootstraps and started her own business.
詹纳斯失去了工作，但她靠自己的努力，改善了自己的境况，结果开办起了自己的商店。
8. You cannot lift yourself up by your bootstraps into the Kingdom of Heaven because you are Here, and you have been Here all along.
你没办法凭靠「你」那卑微的力量将自己拉进天国的，因为你本来就在天国这儿，且一直都在。
9. The butterfly pushes the milkweed, and the milkweed pushes the butterfly, and the harder they push the more impossible it becomes for them to let go, until the whole butterfly/milkweed thing emerges as its own being -- a living insect/plant system-pulling itself up by its bootstraps.
蝴蝶拉扯马利筋，马利筋也拉扯蝴蝶，它们拉扯得越厉害，就越难以放手，直到整个的蝴蝶/马利筋事宜切关己事——一个活生生的昆虫/植物系统便大功告成。
10. That is unnerving customers and making it harder for banks to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.
这导致消费者失去勇气同时的使得银行仅凭自己的力量难以扭转局面。
11. Rather than checking out the code by hand, a new server bootstraps the Capistrano process.
新的服务器可以引导Capistrano过程启动，而不需要手动检出代码。
12. Expecting the poorest people in the world to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, without access to foreign investment, training, technical skills, or markets, verges on indifference or cruelty.
让世界上最平穷的人拉着自己的鞋带把自己拉起来，而不通过外资、培训、技术或市场，这种期望近乎冷漠甚至残忍。
13. The utility ez_setup. py is a simple script that bootstraps the rest of setuptools.
工具ezsetup.py是一个简单的脚本，它可以引导setuptools中其余部分。
14. X-loader bootstraps the system only enough to load the second-stage bootloader, which otherwise would not fit into memory.
X-loader只能把系统引导到能够装载第二阶段引导装载器的状态；如果不经过这个阶段，第二阶段引导装载器就不能装载到内存中。
15. You come from a rich family, and therefore you weren't pulling yourself up by your bootstraps if you became successful.
你来自一个富有的家庭，因此如果你成功了你就不是靠自己的努力。
16. Justin: He's always lecturing me on how I should pull myself up by my own bootstraps.
贾斯汀：他老是教训我应该如何自立自强。
bootstraps的反义词
17. Honey, pull yourself up by your bootstraps.
亲爱的，凭自己的力量重新振作起来。
18. To pull yourself up by your bootstraps means to get out of this difficult life situation and become rich or successful, without the help of anyone else.
靠自己的努力成功，意思是不用其他人的帮助，自己走出生活困境获得成功和财富。
19. As in previous bubbles, value came to rely on the perception of value itself: growth pulling itself up by its own leveraged bootstraps.
与前几场泡沫一样，价值开始依赖于对价值本身的感觉：增长依靠自己本身的杠杆作用提升自己。
20. He is an amiable fellow, assured of his place in the world and certain that, given enough time and effort, others can simply pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
他和善可亲，自信他在世界上占有一席之地，并确信，假以时日及努力，别人根本也可以靠自己的力量成功。
1. Many of them have grown up vibrant and outspoken and have taken pride in pulling themselves up by their bootstraps.