He is a self-made man.

他是个白手起家的人。

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He was proud of the fact that he was a self-made man.

他为自己白手起家而自豪。

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The most notable recent case centres on Tang Jun, a celebrity executive, a self-made man and author of a popular book, "My Success Can Be Replicated".

近期最出名的例子当属唐骏，这位非常出名的总裁依靠自身努力取得了成功，并著有畅销书《我的成功可以复制》。

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

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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。

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Mr Brooks had been a self-made man, raised on a hardscrabble tobacco farm in South Carolina.

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Wang was thin and angular, with the bearing of a self-made man.

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There is no such thing as a self-made man.

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