| 词汇 | self-made |
| 释义 | self-made adjective uk /ˌselfˈmeɪd/ us /ˌselfˈmeɪd/ C2 rich and successful as a result of your own work and not because of family money: 靠自己奋斗成功的，白手起家的 a self-made man/millionaire靠自我奋斗成功的男子／百万富翁 Rich and wealthy advantaged affluence bankability bazillionaire be rolling in itidiom comfortably filthy get-rich-quick have money to burnidiom Midas not be short of a bob or twoidiom quid self-supporting sit solvent super-rich ultra-rich wealthily well endowed well heeled You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Successful (things or people) self-made | American Dictionaryself-made adjective[ not gradable ] us/ˈselfˈmeɪd/ successful as a result of your own effort: a self-made man self-made | Business Englishself-made adjective uk /ˌselfˈmeɪd/us rich and successful as a result of your own work, and not because of money from your family: a self-made businessman/entrepreneur/millionaire Examples of self-madeself-made The orchid's fauna consisted almost entirely of web-building spiders, who can rely on self-made structures for a living, and ants, which were probably foraging workers. It has opened its doors to all composers, academic and self-made, and has given to musical creation a new perspective, new goals and new publics. She consistently preferred the maverick to the conventional, the outspoken to the cautious, the self-made businessman to the traditional director of the traditional family firm. Her self-made marriage has to be necessarily denied. In other words, its lexicon consists to a large extent of self-made linguistic expressions, rather than loans from sub- or super-strate languages. He tries to resurrect nationalist interpretations by demolishing self-made arguments which he claims come from 'revisionists'. His position as the archetypal self-made tory was his greatest justification for hierarchy and inequality. According to these texts, the successful achievement of middle-class manhood, represented by the figure of the ' ' self-made man, ' ' rested on the careful manipulation and presentation of one's own inner life. Of working-class background and trained as a typographer, he was the quintessential self-made intellectual, known as the most philosophical of proletarians and the most proletarian of philosophers. Most of the editors of these periodicals were self-made men; having educated themselves out of obscurity, they were anxious to exhort their fellows to do the same. Finally, self-made materials motivate children. He was every inch a self-made man, very positive in his beliefs, in himself and his opinions, very unwilling to listen to arguments of others. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, when it comes to a choice between the self-made man and those who inherit their wealth, they help those who inherit their wealth. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Nowhere on that earth is there a self-made man. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Very often these people tell us that they are self-made men who are always proud of their creator. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of self-made These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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