| 释义 |
self-taught, ppl. a.
[self- 2.]
Taught by oneself without aid from others; self-educated.
1725Pope Odyss. xxii. 383 Self-taught I sing. 1791Boswell Johnson 26 Oct., an. 1769, Mr. Fergusson, the self-taught philosopher. 1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast xxiii, Like most self-taught men he over-estimated the value of an education. 1847H. Miller First Impr. Eng. xiv. (1857) 235 Every great writer..whether he be a learned Milton or an unlearned Burns, is self-taught.
b. Of that which is learnt: Acquired by one's own unaided efforts.
1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. vi. xii, All the arts of inferior animals are self-taught, and scarce one acquired by imitation. 1828Miss Mitford Village Ser. iii. 123 She had much of the self-taught knowledge, which is, of all knowledge, the surest and the best. 190319th Cent. Apr. 651 His scholarship was self-taught. |