There's Benjamin Franklin, the very model of the self-educated, self-made man, who rose from modest origins to become a well-known scientist, philosopher, and statesman.

本杰明·富兰克林是自学成才、自力更生的典范；他出身寒微，后来成为著名的科学家、哲学家和政治家。

youdao

He is not quite "self-educated" — he's taken many classes, but always at his own speed and in his own style, studying the things he knew he wanted to know and working closely with professors.

他并不是完全“自学成才”的，他上过许多课，但是经常是以他自己的速度和方式上课；他研究他觉得自己想知道的东西，并和教授密切合作。

youdao

James Ellington was a butler and a caterer, but he was prosperous by African-American standards of the time, and extensively self-educated thanks to the library of his employer, a doctor.

詹姆斯·艾灵顿身为司膳总管，他的家庭在非裔美国人中算是富足之户。由于受雇于一名医生，他得以借用其丰富的馆藏图书来广泛地充实自己。

youdao

The kind of discipline and self-restraint necessary for an educated mind appears, for him, to be unequally divided among human beings.

那种受过教育者,所必备的纪律与自制，对他而言似乎是不平等地,区隔了人群。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Later, Mr Kubrick was to disparage formal learning, as self-educated people sometimes do.

ECONOMIST: Stanley Kubrick

The leaders of the growing labour movement were exactly the kind of self-educated men who prided themselves on a fierce intellectual independence from ready-made doctrine.

ECONOMIST: Cultural history

Ji Pengfei, the self-educated peasant, was made a diplomat.

ECONOMIST: Ji Pengfei