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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "I mean this, that we ought to think ourselves fortunate if we can begin our married life with a good action.
-- Neither Mulrady, nor Wilson, nor myself would be able to rejoin Thalcave at the given rendezvous, but we will put ourselves under the banner of the brave Jacques Paganel with perfect confidence."
-- "My friends," replied Paganel, taking both Robert's hands in his own, "we must resign ourselves to a sad disaster.
-- "I suppose you mean after we have made ourselves dry," observed the Major.
-- The house is large, and as the rent is not dear, we must not cramp ourselves for room.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Yet may we shelter ourselves in the infinite goodness of Providence, which would not forever punish the innocent beyond that third or fourth generation which is threatened in Holy Writ.
-- 'We will confine ourselves for the present with your permis-sion to this very interesting document, which must have been put together and posted yesterday evening.
-- As it is, by an indiscreet eagerness, which was taken advantage of with extraordinary quickness and en-ergy by our opponent, we have betrayed ourselves and lost our man.'
-- He would talk of nothing but art, of which he had the crudest ideas, from our leaving the gallery until we found ourselves at the Northumberland Hotel.
-- 'I have no doubt, sir, that we shall succeed in establishing ourselves in some business.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- That's the room where we all assemble and busy ourselves as we like best,' she explained.
-- It is quite true that we did not present ourselves humbly, like your flatterers and parasites, but holding up our heads as befits independent men.
-- You see, prince, I'll tell you privately, Evgenie and ourselves have not said a word yet, we have no formal understanding, we are in no way bound on either side, but the word may be said very soon, don't you see, VERY soon, and all this is most injurious, and is meant to be so.
-- It really appears to me that they were of another race alto-gether than ourselves of today.
-- Not as slaves, al-lowing ourselves to be caught by the hooks of the Jesuits, but carrying our Russian civilization to THEM, we must stand before them, not letting it be said among us that their preaching is 'skilful,' as someone expressed it just now.'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "As for the house itself, to be sure," said she, "it is too small for our family, but we will make ourselves tolerably comfortable for the present, as it is too late in the year for improvements.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- We could see saw-logs go by in the daylight some- times, but we let them go; we didn't show ourselves in daylight.
-- Sometimes we'd have that whole river all to ourselves for the longest time.
-- It ain't no crime in a prisoner to steal the thing he needs to get away with, Tom said; it's his right; and so, as long as we was representing a prisoner, we had a perfect right to steal anything on this place we had the least use for to get ourselves out of prison with.
-- Chapter XXXVI S soon as we reckoned everybody was asleep that night Awe went down the lightning-rod, and shut ourselves up in the lean-to, and got out our pile of fox-fire, and went to work.
-- I did wish Aunt Sally would come, and get done with me, and lick me, if she wanted to, and let me get away and tell Tom how we'd overdone this thing, and what a thundering hornet's-nest we'd got ourselves into, so we could stop fool-ing around straight off, and clear out with Jim before these rips got out of patience and come for us.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Bad, very bad!In this world, even as children, we must accustom ourselves to eat of everything, for we never know what life may hold in store for us!"
-- There we can enjoy ourselves and be happy from morn till night.'"
-- "And then, my dear, we'll find ourselves in darkness."
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