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单词 self-application
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self-application
self-application n.
Brit. /ˌsɛlfaplᵻˈkeɪʃn/
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U.S. /ˌsɛlfˌæpləˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/
(a) the action or an act of administering something to oneself, or of bringing something to bear upon oneself; (b) the action of giving one's full attention to what one does or undertakes; hard work.
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1614 T. Adams Diuells Banket v. 254 Runne along with mee, both with your vnderstandings and selfe-applications.
1750 M. Postlethwayt Merchant's Public Counting-house 7 The eager pursuits of interest in the master, who has not leisure to attend to his instruction, will not admit of his making a greater proficiency in mercantile knowledge, than what self-application shall lead him to.
1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison V. xlv. 291 Poor Mr. Grandison found in this case also great room for self-application and regret, without my being so officious as to remind him of the similitude.
1800 J. Watkins Universal Biogr. Dict. at Rousseau (John James) His education was but scanty, but he made up for this by self-application.
1939 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 26 Aug. 451/2 Self-application with one hand is made possible by a special buttonhole device.
2016 Sunday Times (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 6 Nov. All in all, my experience was self-application and learning by default.
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