He madesomethingof himself in spite of difficulties.
尽管困难重重,他成了有出息的人。
2
Later I thought that maybe I had madesomethingof value after all.
或许我毕竟还是做了件有价值的事。
3
It's as if she just woke up one day and, confronted with irrefutable evidence that her son had actually madesomethingof himself, couldn't reconcile how in the world that could have happened.