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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There's Benjamin Franklin, the very model of the self-educated, self-made man, who rose from modest origins to become a well-known scientist, philosopher, and statesman.

本杰明·富兰克林是自学成才、自力更生的典范；他出身寒微，后来成为著名的科学家、哲学家和政治家。

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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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Petropolis group, the second largest brewery and beverage company in Brazil owned by self made man Walter Faria, has been very successful with TNT brand, growing 262% in three years and reaching sales of 60 million cans in 2011.

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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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He is the classic self-made man, having started 40 years ago when a building boom led to a shortage of window frames.

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