He claimed that living in Illinois and Wisconsin -- where slavery was illegal -- had made him a free man.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

Maybe one could even say Machiavelli's prince is, in a way, the first truly self-made man.

也还更能说,马奇亚维利的君王是，从某一层面看来，第一位真正白手起家的君子。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Aristotle, and his politics, made the point neatly, and I quote him, "As a man," - I'm sorry, "As man is the best of the animals when perfected, so he is the worst when separated from law and justice.

亚里士多德和他的政治学,很巧妙地说明了这点,我引用他的话来说,"作为一个",不好意思,"人类由于至趋完善而成为最优良的动物,但一旦脱离法律和正义,他就堕落为最恶劣的动物

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The FDA also has approved a man-made form of myelin basic protein to treat this kind of MS.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

They did, honestly! His smallest mistakes made a man in his right mind cry - and shout and scream, too - to himself, of course.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

In nineteen thirty-six, a physicist from Japan produced the first man-made snow in a laboratory.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

In Theodore Maiman's first laser, a rod of man-made ruby supplied the electrons.

VOA: special.2010.09.01

Alan Shepard made only a fifteen-minute flight in the little one-man Mercury spacecraft.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

A critic once described American writer Edith Wharton as a "self-made man."

VOA: special.2010.10.24

A middle-aged man who works at the market complained that it made no sense to him why anyone would put a bomb in a crowded vegetable market: He said that all the traders and sellers were going about their business when the explosion took place.

VOA: standard.2009.06.01