Yet many of the dictionary's contributors were autodidacts.

，这本词典的许多贡献都是成才。

You may have some unique skills, or be a natural autodidact (learn by yourself), and so school doesn’t matter much even if you are poor.

你可能有一些独特的技能， 或是一个天生的（己习），所以即使你很穷， 校也无关紧要。