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单词 self-made
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Definition of self-made in English:

self-made

adjective ˌsɛlfˈmeɪdˈˌsɛlf ˈmeɪd
  • 1Made by oneself.

    his self-made fortune
    a self-made kite
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Climbing some of the highest peaks in Wales, mountain biking for 20 miles and paddling across a reservoir on a self-made raft would be challenging enough for anyone.
    • He has a self-made philosophy that the economy will always survive but the social environment of the average working people are what makes Ireland or Poland.
    • An autopoietic system is basically a self-made and self-sustaining ensemble.
    • He told me that the self-made bomb looked like about 10 dynamite sticks that were set to go off yet only one actually ignited.
    • Holding a self-made net used to catch shrimp, he said the island is the right place for him to pass his rest days, but he wonders why more and more young visitors keep flocking here.
    • He flees to an abandoned lighthouse with the hopes of starting over, creating his own self-made, independent, and organic society.
    • A typical resident of the floating apartment ship is aged between 50 and 60 with a self-made fortune.
    Synonyms
    self-sufficient, self-sustaining, self-reliant, self-standing, able to stand on one's own two feet, living on one's hump
    1. 1.1 Having become successful or rich by one's own efforts.
      a self-made millionaire
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Plumbers, builders and hair dressers are among those in an index of 25 self-made millionaires, including three Yorkshiremen.
      • Of the 1,000 people on the list, 750 are self-made millionaires.
      • In contrast to the Gracchus brothers, Marius was a self-made man with no aristocratic background.
      • Following his great-grandfather's precepts, it seems he can justly claim to be a self-made man.
      • He was a very successful man, a self-made man, and I loved him very much, and he was very insistent that I follow or try to follow in his footsteps.
      • His father was a self-made rich peasant, hard-working and frugal, narrowed rather than broadened in mind by his hard-won success.
      • He went on to become the very definition of a self-made man, literally.
      • Stanley was a self-made man who raised himself from poverty to success through his technical skills.
      • A self-made man uses his wit and his energy at a time when the country is in the grip of the Great Depression to build a better life for himself and his family.
      • He's in construction, but he is a self-made man.
      • Williams, a self-made millionaire, has interests in the offshore oil industry, telecommunications and tourism.
      • Mills was a self-made man who descended from a family of Scotch-English ancestry.
      • The gangster is also often portrayed as a self-made man rising above his station, another affirmation of the spirit of free enterprise for the audience to clasp.
      • One was an aristocrat educated at Harrow and Cambridge, the other a self-made man from small-town South India.
      • I have a lot of respect for the fact that he's a self-made man who started at the bottom of the corporate ladder - literally putting stamps on envelopes - and worked his way to the very top.
      • As a result, success manual authors had to provide failed men with a far broader definition of what constituted a self-made man.
      • Like all self-made millionaires, there is an unyielding drive to Boyle, an urge to act, to be decisive, to control the reins of his life.
      • Eddie is Archie's model of success, a self-made millionaire.
      • From her experience as a suburban domestic, she claims Benjamin Franklin as role model and strives to become a successful self-made American.
      • Here, in one neat package, Franklin constructed a prescription that went into making a self-made man.
 
 

Definition of self-made in US English:

self-made

adjectiveˈˌself ˈmādˈˌsɛlf ˈmeɪd
  • 1Made by oneself.

    his self-made fortune
    a self-made kite
    Example sentencesExamples
    • An autopoietic system is basically a self-made and self-sustaining ensemble.
    • Climbing some of the highest peaks in Wales, mountain biking for 20 miles and paddling across a reservoir on a self-made raft would be challenging enough for anyone.
    • A typical resident of the floating apartment ship is aged between 50 and 60 with a self-made fortune.
    • He has a self-made philosophy that the economy will always survive but the social environment of the average working people are what makes Ireland or Poland.
    • He flees to an abandoned lighthouse with the hopes of starting over, creating his own self-made, independent, and organic society.
    • Holding a self-made net used to catch shrimp, he said the island is the right place for him to pass his rest days, but he wonders why more and more young visitors keep flocking here.
    • He told me that the self-made bomb looked like about 10 dynamite sticks that were set to go off yet only one actually ignited.
    Synonyms
    self-sufficient, self-sustaining, self-reliant, self-standing, able to stand on one's own two feet, living on one's hump
    1. 1.1 Having become successful or rich by one's own efforts.
      a self-made millionaire
      Example sentencesExamples
      • One was an aristocrat educated at Harrow and Cambridge, the other a self-made man from small-town South India.
      • A self-made man uses his wit and his energy at a time when the country is in the grip of the Great Depression to build a better life for himself and his family.
      • He was a very successful man, a self-made man, and I loved him very much, and he was very insistent that I follow or try to follow in his footsteps.
      • Here, in one neat package, Franklin constructed a prescription that went into making a self-made man.
      • His father was a self-made rich peasant, hard-working and frugal, narrowed rather than broadened in mind by his hard-won success.
      • As a result, success manual authors had to provide failed men with a far broader definition of what constituted a self-made man.
      • He's in construction, but he is a self-made man.
      • Plumbers, builders and hair dressers are among those in an index of 25 self-made millionaires, including three Yorkshiremen.
      • Like all self-made millionaires, there is an unyielding drive to Boyle, an urge to act, to be decisive, to control the reins of his life.
      • Stanley was a self-made man who raised himself from poverty to success through his technical skills.
      • In contrast to the Gracchus brothers, Marius was a self-made man with no aristocratic background.
      • Of the 1,000 people on the list, 750 are self-made millionaires.
      • From her experience as a suburban domestic, she claims Benjamin Franklin as role model and strives to become a successful self-made American.
      • I have a lot of respect for the fact that he's a self-made man who started at the bottom of the corporate ladder - literally putting stamps on envelopes - and worked his way to the very top.
      • Mills was a self-made man who descended from a family of Scotch-English ancestry.
      • Eddie is Archie's model of success, a self-made millionaire.
      • Williams, a self-made millionaire, has interests in the offshore oil industry, telecommunications and tourism.
      • He went on to become the very definition of a self-made man, literally.
      • The gangster is also often portrayed as a self-made man rising above his station, another affirmation of the spirit of free enterprise for the audience to clasp.
      • Following his great-grandfather's precepts, it seems he can justly claim to be a self-made man.
 
 
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