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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We boast ourselves as even better men than our fathers; we took seven-gated Thebes, though the wall was stronger and our men were fewer in number, for we trusted in the omens of the gods and in the help of Jove, whereas they perished through their own sheer folly; hold not, then, our fathers in like honour with us.'
-- Therefore let us acquit ourselves with valour.'
-- Hard by the funeral pyre we will build a barrow that shall be raised from the plain for all in common; near this let us set about build-ing a high wall, to shelter ourselves and our ships, and let it have well-made gates that there may be a way through them for our chariots.
-- We other gods must not set ourselves against Jove, for he is far stronger than we are.'
-- When we had satisfied ourselves with meat and drink, I said my say and urged both of you to join us.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We may find ourselves in a mess yet, through it.'
-- We locked ourselves in, and then took Moreau's mangled body into the yard and laid it upon a pile of brushwood.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The Hurons are not to be seen,' he said, addressing Da-vid, who had by no means recovered from the effects of the stunning blow he had received; 'let us conceal ourselves in the cavern, and trust the rest to Providence.'
-- 'Tis not probable that any are as houseless as ourselves in this dreary forest.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "About a mile," replied Pencroft; "and if you are astonished, captain, we are not less surprised ourselves at seeing you in this place!"
-- If, on the contrary, this is the coast of a desert island in some tiny archipelago, perhaps we shall be able to reconnoiter it from the summit of that peak which overlooks the country, and then we shall see how best to establish ourselves here as if we are never to go away."
-- "It is, that we do not consider ourselves castaways, but colonists, who have come here to settle."
-- "We must avoid showing ourselves before knowing with whom we have to deal," replied Cyrus Harding.
-- "Well," replied Pencroft, "we will fortify ourselves against savages with two legs as well as against savages with four.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was surprised to see that all this time everything was done by the child, and that there appeared to be no other persons but ourselves in the house.
-- 'We will,' answered the old man, 'we will travel afoot through the fields and woods, and by the side of rivers, and trust ourselves to God in the places where He dwells.
-- He is gone, ma'am, to where his legs will never come in question. We will content ourselves with crooked, Mrs Jiniwin.'
-- Here we are, Mr Richard, rising with the sun to run our little course our course of duty, sir and, like him, to get through our day's work with credit to ourselves and advantage to our fellow-creatures.
-- We feared you would be anxious unless you knew from ourselves what steps we intended to take, and therefore came to you before we stirred in the matter.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "We don't know ourselves why, but we have been here the second month."
-- "We all live in the silly belief that we ourselves are the lords of our world, that this world has been given us for our enjoyment.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I had started with the Time Machine, I had started with the absurd assumption that the men of the Future would certainly be infinitely ahead of ourselves in all their appliances.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 4 The Sea-chestLOST no time, of course, in telling my mother all that I knew, and perhaps should have told her long before, and we saw ourselves at once in a difficult and dangerous position.
-- Then, leaving Joyce to guard them one man, to be sure, but with half a dozen muskets Hunter and I returned to the jolly-boat and loaded ourselves once more.
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