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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Robbed of their dignity and sense of self-worth, many-even some of those who have made it to the very top-remain hypersensitive and acutely wary of the white man.

他们被剥夺了尊严和自我价值感，许多人至今面对白人仍然犹如惊弓之鸟，哪怕有些人已经进入社会的上层。

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

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The 86-year-old Mitchell, the son of a Greek immigrant, father of ten, and self-made man, ranks as the 347th richest man in the world.

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