释义
[ self -meyd ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈsɛlfˈmeɪd / PHONETIC RESPELLING
adjective having succeeded in life unaided: He is a self-made man.
made by oneself.
Origin of self-made First recorded in 1605–15
Words nearby self-made self-limiting, self-liquidating, self-loader, self-loading, self-love, self-made , self-mailer, self-mastery, self-mate, self-medication, self-mortification
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Example sentences from the Web for self-made In the early years, the big powers were often rough, self-made men such as Jack Warner or Louis B. Mayer.
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He was a self-made man, and a self-destroyed man—so he wrote his own punch line.
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We needed him to be wary, absorbed, and a little bit gruff, and he gamely complied, thereby furthering his own self-made legend.
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My father was a self-made man as we use the term, but he was more than that – much more.
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But Bennett, a religious IDF commander and self-made multimillionaire, failed us miserably on two leadership issues.
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Isaac was a self-made man, a man ignorant of many things, religious, but uneducated.
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Sorg was a self-made man, who had accumulated considerable money in the tobacco business by energy and industry.
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The daughters of self-made men may well surpass in energy those settled on their lees.
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The one is self-made , guided by vicious impulses; the other is the handiwork of God.
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You ought to give him credit for what he has accomplished, as he is a self-made man.
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British Dictionary definitions for self-made adjective having achieved wealth, status, etc, by one's own efforts
made by oneself
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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