I run my own company. I'm a big fish in a little pond.
我经营自己的公司。我是一条小池里的大鱼。
He'e never really made it as an actor.
他当演员从未有所成就。
John Dewey has said in all seriousness that the part played by custom in shaping the behaviour of the individual,as against any way in which he can affect traditional custom,