汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 自作自受
自作自受
to reap what one has sown (idiom) / to stew in one's own juice
I did stupid things and bad things, and I was unlucky
自己做了错事﹐自己承受不良的后果。
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES

那位国王不过是任那些政客自作自受

The king has merely given the politicians enough rope to hang themselves.

那位老男爵也不过是自作自受自遭殃。

That old baron got only what he deserved.

现在这位友敌成为行业内许多自作自受者的替罪羊。

Now the frenemy has become a scapegoat for many of the industry's self-inflicted wounds.

以前我告诉过你要努力工作,但你总是当耳边风,你这是自作自受

I once told you to work hard, but you always turned a deaf ears to me. It serves you right.

是迫不得已还是真的是自己自作多情的自不量力,所以也就只能这样的自作自受

Is forced or affection is really the bite off more than you can chew, so also can do the stew!

他冒着失败的风险呼吁全民投票,但这很可能会使他面临自作自受的危险。

He risks defeat in the referendum that he called, but which threatens to boomerang against him.

因失恋而痛苦,因别人“插足”于自己与心上人之间而图报复,是最没有出息、最自作自受的乐。

Nothing is more futile and more self-defeating than the bitterness of spurned love, the vengeful feeling that someone else has “come between” oneself and a beloved.