| 单词 |
self-culture |
| 释义 |
self-ˈculture [self- 1 a.] The cultivation or development by one's own efforts of one's mind, faculties, manners, etc.
1829J. Sterling Let. 10 Nov. in Carlyle Life John Sterling (1851) i. vii. 56, I have no doubt that, by practice and self-culture, she will be a far finer actress. 1847Emerson Repr. Men, Goethe Wks. (Bohn) I. 394, I suppose the worldly tone of his tales grew out of the calculations of self-culture. 1872Lowell Among my Bks., Dante Wks. 1890 IV. 149 From being the slave of his imaginative faculty, he rose by self-culture and force of will to that mastery of it which is art. 1926B. Webb My Apprenticeship ii. 60 A device of my own for self-culture—reading the books of my free choice. |

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