self-description
noun [ C or U ] uk/ˌself.dɪˈskrɪp.ʃən/ us/ˌself.dɪˈskrɪp.ʃən/
自称;自我形容
the act of saying yourself what you are or what you are like, or a description in which you do this
The more his students achieve, the less he seems to resemble his self-description as "just a regular classroom teacher". 他的学生取得的成绩越多，他似乎就越不像他“不过是个普通教书匠”的自我描述。
They noted that the political self-description of "economically conservative and socially liberal" was becoming increasingly common.
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- They found that successful women tended to avoid self-descriptions that involved stereotypically feminine traits.
- Befitting her self-description as "the people's diva", she doesn't spend much time worrying about unimportant stuff.
- He called himself "a citizen of the world", and that self-description could not be more accurate.