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分享一个知识点解析： Reader question: What does this headline – The day Albert came into his own – mean? My comments: It means the day Albert grows up, the day when he establishes himself amongst his peers, when he is recognized for what he is, for his talents and accomplishments and so forth. Coming into one’s own is an idiom, and a very good idiom it is too in that it is simple. All English learners should make an effort to master such simple idioms like this, in preference to big words. Anyways, coming into one’s own is originally a term describing a boy coming into age, age 21 for instance, when he is considered as an adult and hence allowed to make decisions concerning his inheritance. In this sense, coming into one’s own means coming into one’s property. Now he can be his own man and make his own decisions over his properties and moneys inherited. Hence figuratively speaking a man who comes into his own is one who has established himself, gained the recognition he’s due, done his best and realized his potential. In other words, he’s lived up to expectations, his and others and proved his worth. Here are media examples: 1. The modern American right, which is congenitally vulnerable to paranoia, gives into its own tendencies most readily when Democrats are in power and its own sense of dispossession is greatest. The John Birch Society thrived under Kennedy; talk-radio demagogues and the militia movement came into their own during the Clinton years; the prospect of a big Democratic win last year had a lot of conservative pundits and some Republican candidates describing Obama as a radical, a socialist, or worse. In some quarters the language has gotten more intemperate since he took office and started governing like the center-left politician that he’s always been. It isn’t just language that’s symptomatic of the paranoid style. It’s the certainty of a conspiratorial hand behind every decision; the evangelical fervor that sees every political dispute as an ultimate contest of good against evil. - Populism and Paranoia, The New Yorker, March 24, 2009. | 
