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单词 self-made
释义
self-made
adjective
uk
/ˌselfˈmeɪd/us
/ˌselfˈmeɪd/
C2
richandsuccessfulas aresultofyourownworkand not because offamilymoney:
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
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Rich and wealthy
  • affluence
  • bankability
  • bankable
  • bazillionaire
  • be rolling in itidiom
  • be stinking richidiom
  • born with a silver spoon inyourmouthidiom
  • clover
  • comfortably
  • creditworthy
  • fat
  • get-rich-quick
  • moneyed
  • not be short of a bob or twoidiom
  • prosperity
  • purchasing power
  • self-supporting
  • strike
  • strike goldidiom
  • wealthy
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Successful (things or people)
(Definition ofself-madefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

self-made| American Dictionary

self-made
adjective[not gradable]
us
/ˈselfˈmeɪd/
successfulas aresultofyourowneffort:
a self-made man
(Definition ofself-madefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

self-made| Business English

self-made
adjective
uk
/ˌselfˈmeɪd/us
richandsuccessfulas aresultofyourownwork, and not because ofmoneyfromyourfamily:
aself-madebusinessman/entrepreneur/millionaire
(Definition ofself-madefrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofself-made

self-made
The orchid's fauna consisted almost entirely of web-building spiders, who can rely onself-madestructures for a living, and ants, which were probably foraging workers.
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It has opened its doors to all composers, academic andself-made, and has given to musical creation a new perspective, new goals and new publics.
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She consistently preferred the maverick to the conventional, the outspoken to the cautious, theself-madebusinessman to the traditional director of the traditional family firm.
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Herself-mademarriage has to be necessarily denied.
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In other words, its lexicon consists to a large extent ofself-madelinguistic expressions, rather than loans from sub- or super-strate languages.
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He tries to resurrect nationalist interpretations by demolishingself-madearguments which he claims come from 'revisionists'.
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His position as the archetypalself-madetory was his greatest justification for hierarchy and inequality.
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According to these texts, the successful achievement of middle-class manhood, represented by the figure of the ' 'self-mademan, ' ' rested on the careful manipulation and presentation of one's own inner life.
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Of working-class background and trained as a typographer, he was the quintessentialself-madeintellectual, known as the most philosophical of proletarians and the most proletarian of philosophers.
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Most of the editors of these periodicals wereself-mademen; having educated themselves out of obscurity, they were anxious to exhort their fellows to do the same.
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Finally,self-madematerials motivate children.
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He was every inch aself-mademan, very positive in his beliefs, in himself and his opinions, very unwilling to listen to arguments of others.
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However, when it comes to a choice between theself-mademan and those who inherit their wealth, they help those who inherit their wealth.
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Nowhere on that earth is there aself-mademan.
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Very often these people tell us that they areself-mademen who are always proud of their creator.
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