self-betterment

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of making oneself better. uncountable
    — Before the 1850s, when women figured most prominently in textile employment, the reasons that caused women to seek paid labor—a ne'er-do-well husband, economic distress of the natal family, or a belief that factory work was a road to self-betterment—often precluded their considering an away-from-home cure.

词源

From self- + betterment.
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