Usage examples of "por sí solas" in Spanish with translation to English

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A mi parecer las imágenes hablan por sí solas. It seems to me that the pictures speak for themselves.
La filosofía nos enseña sentirnos inseguros acerca de las cosas que nos parezcan evidentes por sí solas. Por otro lado, la propaganda nos enseña a aceptar por evidentes asuntos los cuales sería razonable someter a nuestro juicio o poner en duda. Philosophy teaches us to feel uncertain about the things that seem to us self-evident. Propaganda, on the other hand, teaches us to accept as self-evident matters about which it would be reasonable to suspend our judgment or to feel doubt.
Tom no tuvo el valor para ir ahí por sí solo. Tom didn’t have the courage to go there alone.
Él vivía allá por sí solo. He lived there completely alone.
Ojalá mi pasto fuera emo, así se cortaría por sí solo. I wish my grass were emo, then it would cut itself.
Él tuvo que buscar su habitación por sí solo. He had to look for his room by himself.
Todo el mundo debe aprender por sí mismo al final. Everyone must learn on their own in the end.
El océano Pacífico por sí solo cubre un área más grande que la que cubrirían todos los continentes juntos. The Pacific Ocean alone covers an area larger than that of all continents put together.
El gato se subió al techo de mi casa por sí solo. The cat climbed up the roof of my house by himself.
Ella fue allá por sí sola. She went there by herself.
Si no fuera por los libros, cada generación tendría que redescubrir por sí misma las verdades del pasado. If it were not for books, each generation would have to rediscover for itself the truths of the past.
Hay cosas que solo la inteligencia es capaz de buscar, pero que de por sí nunca encontrará. Estas cosas solo pueden encontrarse por instinto, pero el instinto nunca las buscará. There are things that only intelligence is capable of searching for, but which it itself will never find. These things can only be found by instinct, but it will never search for them.
Ella fue a México por sí sola. She went to Mexico by herself.
El ciervo iba corriendo por sí sólo. The deer was running by itself.
Ellos no pudieron defenderse por sí mismos. They couldn't defend themselves.
Tom lo hizo por sí solo. Tom did it on his own.
Incapaz de cumplir la tarea por sí solo, él acudió a mí por ayuda. Unable to accomplish the task by himself, he turned to me for help.
Deberían tener derecho a decidir por sí mismos. They should have the right to decide for themselves.
Todavía recuerdo la primera vez que estuve en China; estaba en Shandong, y me di cuenta de que esa provincia por sí sola era veintiséis mil kilómetros cuadrados más grande que Inglaterra. I still remember the first time I was in China; I was in Shandong, and I realised that that province alone is twenty six thousand square kilometres bigger than England.
Mi hermano murió repentinamente hace dos años atrás. Desde entonces, mi cuñada por sí sola a mantenido valerosamente la pequeña joyería que mi hermano dejó atrás. My brother died suddenly two years ago. Since then, my sister-in-law has valiantly kept the small jewelery store he left her going.
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