make something of yourselfto become successful 获得成功，有所成就make something of yourself• Most ladies maids try to make something of themselves.• She too wanted her boys to make something of themselves.• She was totally uninterested in the proposition that a man ought to make something of himself.• The one with the ambition and the talent and the brains to really make something of herself.• As with all young people she had to make something of herself before she could offer anything to anyone else.• Uncle Allen had made something of himself by 1932.• He looked like a man who might be able to make something of himself if a good woman took him in hand.• She began to think of it as he, and wondered if he would make something of himself later on in life.
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