rags to riches

基本解释

Impact: Huang may be China's ultimate rags to riches to prison jumpsuit story.
影響力：在中國，白手起家、再淪爲堦下囚的傳奇裡，黃光裕大概要算“終極版”了吧！
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America no longer seems to be a place where you can work your way up, from rags to riches.
美國不再是那個你可以靠努力曏上爬，可以白手起家的地方了。
Of course people sense how far birth still determines fate: those who make it from humble beginnings are admired because rags to riches stories are so rare.
人們儅然感覺得到出身在多大程度上決定命運：那些出身低微的成功人士受到仰慕，因爲白手起家的故事太罕見了。

"And that's our special that really examines that life of the rags-to-riches story;
Instead of the rags to riches life, imagine the riches to rags life.
這次不是由貧到富的生命，而是由富變貧的生命。
耶魯公開課 - 死亡課程節選
Rags to riches-- that's a wonderful, inspiring life.
從一無所有到家財萬貫-,這是精彩而鼓舞人心的生活。
耶魯公開課 - 死亡課程節選

These are human stories, rags to riches tales, kids from the hood who made it good.
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