英语词汇self-made man的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	self-made man
词源	self-made man. This expression seems like it would be an Americanism, and it is, the O.E.D tracing it back to an 1832 speech by a Kentucky congressman. One time a politician col- lared American editor Horace Greeley at a convention and proudly confided to him that he was a “self-made man.” “That, sir,” Greeley replied, “relieves the Almighty of a terrible respon- sibility.” But then author Henry Class said Greeley himself “was a self-made man who worshipped his creator.”
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