self-acting

基本解释

This is why Manchester code is called self-acting timing code.
曼彻斯特编码因此被认为是一种自定时码。
The Pilgrim, so it seems, attains self-acting prayer in a matter of a few weeks.
看上去那位朝圣者只用了几个星期的时间就达到了自发的祈祷。
Behind were six Fire-flies, well supplied with self-acting lamps, which they kept hidden somewhere under their wings.
后面六个消防苍蝇，以及提供自我代理灯，他们一直隐藏的地方根据自己的翅膀。

Addressing the General Assembly, Israel's Ambassador Gabriela Shalev repeated her government's position that Israel was acting in self-defense.
Our naval servicemen were acting in self-defense."
He dismissed as "biased and unjust" a U.N.Human Rights Council report that accused Israel of war crimes during its December Gaza offensive, saying his country was acting in self-defense against militant rocket fire.

In the history of European clock technology, the monk is an early and very rare example of a self-acting automaton, one whose mechanism is wholly contained and hidden within its body.
FORBES: The World of Clockwork Robots