ourselves是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为pron. 我们自己； 我们亲自，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It seems to me absolutely true, that our world, which ap-pears to us the surface of all things, is really the BOTTOM of a deep ocean: all our trees are submarine growths, and we are weird, scaly-clad submarine fauna, feeding ourselves on offal like shrimps.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, her mother and I were not young when we married, and Pet has always had a sort of grown-up life with us, though we have tried to adapt ourselves to her.
-- She's failing in health, and she'll want pretty constant attendance up in her room, and we shall have to be much with her, and there'll be nobody about now but ourselves when we're away from her, and altogether it will be more convenient.
-- I pointed out to your sister the plain state of the case; the impossibility of the Society in which we moved recognising the Society in which she moved though charming, I have no doubt; the immense disadvantage at which she would consequently place the family she had so high an opinion of, upon which we should find ourselves compelled to look down with contempt, and from which (socially speaking) we should feel obliged to recoil with abhorrence.
-- 'So if the whole thing had broken down, sir,' concluded Pancks, 'at the very last, say the day before the other day when I showed you our papers in the Prison yard, or say that very day, nobody but ourselves would have been cruelly disappointed, or a penny the worse.'
-- Here are our two women, and Pa's valet, and a footman, and a courier, and all sorts of dependents, and yet in the midst of these, we are to have one of ourselves rushing about with tumblers of cold water, like a menial!Why, a policeman,' said Miss Fanny, 'if a beggar had a fit in the street, could but go plunging about with tumblers, as this very Amy did in this very room before our very eyes last night!'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'We shouldn't enjoy ourselves half so much as we do now.
-- 'I haven't strength of mind enough to clear up now, so we will sober ourselves with a funeral,' said Jo, as they rose, and Miss Crocker made ready to go, being eager to tell the new story at another friend's dinner table.
-- I wish we could wash from out hearts and souls The stains of the week away, And let water and air by their magic make Ourselves as pure as they.
-- I poked again and said, 'A little faster,' then off he went, helter-skelter as before, and we resigned ourselves to our fate.
-- Aunt's pronunciation is old-fashioned, and Flo and I, though we flattered ourselves that we knew a good deal, find we don't, and are very grateful to have Fred do the 'parley vooing', as Uncle calls it.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans.
-- Ah!how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!
-- Yes, we became very wakeful; so much so that our recumbent position began to grow wearisome, and by little and little we found ourselves sitting up; the clothes well tucked around us, leaning against the head-board with our four knees drawn up close together, and our two noses bending over them, as if our kneepans were warming-pans.
-- I say, we good Presbyterian Christians should be charitable in these things, and not fancy ourselves so vastly superior to other mortals, pagans and what not, because of their half-crazy conceits on these subjects.
-- This circumstance, coupled with his ambiguous, half-hinting, half-revealing, shrouded sort of talk, now begat in me all kinds of vague wonderments and half-apprehensions, and all connected with the Pequod; and Captain Ahab; and the leg he had lost; and the Cape Horn fit; and the silver calabash; and what Captain Peleg had said of him, when I left the ship the day previous; and the prediction of the squaw Tistig; and the voyage we had bound ourselves to sail; and a hundred other shadowy things.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let us flatter ourselves that I may be the survivor.'
-- We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured.
-- We have certainly done our best; and most fortunately having it in our power to intro-duce you to very superior society, and, from our connection with Rosings, the frequent means of varying the hum-ble home scene, I think we may flatter ourselves that your Hunsford visit cannot have been entirely irksome.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade, lived af-terwards at York, from whence he had married my mother, whose relations were named Robinson, a very good fam-ily in that country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but, by the usual corruption of words in Eng-land, we are now called - nay we call ourselves and write our name - Crusoe; and so my companions always called me.
-- Upon the whole, here was an undoubted testimony that there was scarce any condition in the world so miserable but there was something negative or something positive to be thankful for in it; and let this stand as a direction from the experience of the most miserable of all conditions in this world: that we may always find in it something to com-fort ourselves from, and to set, in the description of good and evil, on the credit side of the account.
-- His caution was so seasonable, and his advice so good, that I could not but be very well pleased with his propos-al, as well as I was satisfied with his fidelity; so we fell to digging, all four of us, as well as the wooden tools we were furnished with permitted; and in about a month's time, by the end of which it was seed-time, we had got as much land cured and trimmed up as we sowed two-and- twenty bush-els of barley on, and sixteen jars of rice, which was, in short, all the seed we had to spare: indeed, we left ourselves barely sufficient, for our own food for the six months that we had to expect our crop; that is to say reckoning from the time we set our seed aside for sowing; for it is not to be supposed it is six months in the ground in that country.
-- We sent for this guide, who told us he would undertake to carry us the same way, with no hazard from the snow, provided we were armed sufficiently to protect ourselves from wild beasts; for, he said, in these great snows it was frequent for some wolves to show themselves at the foot of the moun-tains, being made ravenous for want of food, the ground being covered with snow.
-- Accordingly, we set out from Pampeluna with our guide on the 15th of November; and indeed I was surprised when, instead of going forward, he came directly back with us on the same road that we came from Madrid, about twen-ty miles; when, having passed two rivers, and come into the plain country, we found ourselves in a warm climate again, where the country was pleasant, and no snow to be seen; but, on a sudden, turning to his left, he approached the mountains another way; and though it is true the hills and precipices looked dreadful, yet he made so many tours, such meanders, and led us by such winding ways, that we insensibly passed the height of the mountains without being much encumbered with the snow; and all on a sudden he showed us the pleasant and fruitful provinces of Languedoc and Gascony, all green and flourishing, though at a great distance, and we had some rough way to pass still.
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