self-improvement

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The following of a disciplined programme to improve one's physical health, mental health or character. countable,uncountable
    — He believes that self-improvement and its growing popularity are symptoms of what he calls individualism.
  2. The bettering of one's status. countable,uncountable
    — In the year 1851 a small group of workmen in the Locomotive Department of the old Midland Railway Company at Derby met for self-improvement, and formed what was then known as a "reading society".

词形变化

self-improvements plural

词汇关系

近义词
self-help
上位词
improvement
衍生词
self-improve self-improving

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English improvement
English self-improvement
From self- + improvement.
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