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单词 self-improvement
释义
self-improvement
noun[U]
uk
/ˌself.ɪmˈpruːv.mənt/us
/ˌself.ɪmˈpruːv.mənt/
theactivityoflearningnew things onyourown that make you a moreskilledorableperson:
自我提高
In theinterestof self-improvement, I took aSpanishcourse.为了自我提高，我上了西班牙语课。
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(Definition ofself-improvementfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

self-improvement| American Dictionary

self-improvement
noun[U]
us
/ˌself·ɪmˈpruv·mənt/
learningnew things onyourown that make you a moreskilledorableperson:
In theinterestof self-improvement, I took acourseinSpanish.
(Definition ofself-improvementfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofself-improvement

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And, aside from creating problems for accessing employment, low literacy compromises the reform agenda, which rests so heavily on individualself-improvement.
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Mid- and late-century improvers came to identify certain outsiders as threatening the very existence of collectiveself-improvement.
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Through his charts and schedules, he outlined his experiment inself-improvementto attain virtue, industry, orderliness, and temperance, among other characteristics.
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Indeed, the improved state of the economy would have enabled interested adults to seekself-improvement.
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Yet for large numbers of young men,self-improvementwas instead a collective venture, most often carried out within the bounds of the mutual improvement society.
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Given this tension, one very troubling question for improvers was how to recruit new members without compromising the very nature ofself-improvement.
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Reformers typically become frustrated by offenders' resistance to their message of uplift andself-improvement.
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Such groups were assumed to lack intelligence, self-control and the potential forself-improvementidealized by the middle and respectable working classes.
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Even more strikingly, 391 of these 402 narrators tied such dreams ofself-improvementand self-realization to activities in the labour market.
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Domesticated pragmatism is therefore a doctrine of building, through informed trial and error, convergent improvement andself-improvementin science and politics.
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According to the new ideal that emerged out of these efforts, privateself-improvementwas no longer enough.
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This new incarnation ofself-improvementlinked less lofty intellectual standards to active social engagement.
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It is not thatself-improvementdisappeared but it came to be enacted within more complicated constraints.
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Many learned men visited the library for study andself-improvement.
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In constructing the rule base, there are generally three ways as described in the followings: (1) expert's knowledge or experiences; (2)self-improvement; (3) fuzzy modeling.
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