| 词汇 | self-help |
| 词源 | self-help. British author Thomas Carlyle coined the term self-help, “the action or faculty of providing for oneself without assistance from others,” in his book Sartor Resartus (1833): “In the destitution of the wild desert does our young Ishmael ac- quire for himself the highest of all possessions, that of Self-help.” |
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