0 rich and successful as a result of your own work and not because of family money:
a self-made man/millionaire
1 successful as a result of your own effort:
a self-made man
2 rich and successful as a result of your own work, and not because of money from your family:
a self-made businessman/entrepreneur/millionaire
The scene is now dominated by huge mas bands, often consisting of several thousand participants, their costumes no longer self-made but professionally manufactured.
The orchid's fauna consisted almost entirely of web-building spiders, who can rely on self-made structures for a living, and ants, which were probably foraging workers.
It has opened its doors to all composers, academic and self-made, and has given to musical creation a new perspective, new goals and new publics.
She consistently preferred the maverick to the conventional, the outspoken to the cautious, the self-made businessman to the traditional director of the traditional family firm.
Her self-made marriage has to be necessarily denied.
In other words, its lexicon consists to a large extent of self-made linguistic expressions, rather than loans from sub- or super-strate languages.
He tries to resurrect nationalist interpretations by demolishing self-made arguments which he claims come from 'revisionists'.
His position as the archetypal self-made tory was his greatest justification for hierarchy and inequality.
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靠自己奮鬥成功的,白手起家的…
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靠自己奋斗成功的,白手起家的…
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que se ha hecho a sí mismo, artífice de su éxito [masculine-feminine, singular]…
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que se fez sozinho…
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kendi kendini yetiştirmiş, kendi çabasıyla zengin olmuş, sıfırdan başlamış…
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qui a réussi par lui/elle-même, qui a réussi par lui-même…
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vypracovaný vlastní silou…
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selfmade…
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