themselves是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为pron. 他(她、 它) 们自己； 他(她、 它) 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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In his second year of internship, when the thrills of fires and floods and murder became as obvious a routine as bookkeeping, when he had seen the strangely few ways in which mankind can contrive to injure themselves and slaughter one another, when it was merely wearing to have to live up to the pretentiousness of being The Doctor, Martin tried to satisfy and perhaps kill his guilty scientific lust by voluntary scrabbling about the hospital laboratory, correlating the blood counts in pernicious anemia.
-- Mrs. Coughlin and Mrs. Tromp bewailed the cost of laundry soap and butter, and exchanged recipes for pickled peaches, while the men, sitting on the edge of the porch, their knees crossed, eloquently waving their cigars, gave themselves up to the ecstasy of shop-talk: "Say, Doctor, how do you find collections?"
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Coarse laughing faces with pipes and cigarettes and heads wearing caps thrust themselves in at the doorway.
-- They state themselves that they knocked and the door was locked; yet three minutes later when they went up with the porter, it turned out the door was unfastened.'
-- They were beside themselves with alarm when they heard of his 'running away' to-day, ill and, as they under-stood from her story, delirious!
-- Would you believe, they insist on complete absence of individualism and that's just what they relish!Not to be themselves, to be as unlike themselves as they can.
-- In spite of their predisposition to obedience very many of them, through a playfulness of nature, sometimes vouchsafed even to the cow, like to imagine themselves advanced people, 'destroy-ers,' and to push themselves into the 'new movement,' and this quite sincerely.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Looking back, as I was saying, into the blank of my infancy, thefirst objects I can remember as standing out by themselves from aconfusion of things, are my mother and Peggotty.
-- I was very sensible of my entertainer's goodness, and listened tothe woman's going to bed in another little crib like mine at theopposite end of the boat, and to him and Ham hanging up twohammocks for themselves on the hooks I had noticed in the roof, ina very luxurious state of mind, enhanced by my being sleepy.
-- To this day, 56when I look upon the fat black letters in the primer, the puzzlingnovelty of their shapes, and the easy good-nature of O and Q andS, seem to present themselves again before me as they used to do.
-- I was not mistaken; for the mop came intothe schoolroom before long, and turned out Mr. Mell and me, wholived where we could, and got on how we could, for some days,during which we were always in the way of two or three youngwomen, who had rarely shown themselves before, and were socontinually in the midst of dust that I sneezed almost as much as ifSalem House had been a great snuff-box.
-- The greatrelief and satisfaction experienced by the boys made them difficultto manage; and though the dreaded Tungay brought his woodenleg in twice or thrice, and took notes of the principal offenders'names, no great impression was made by it, as they were prettysure of getting into trouble to-morrow, do what they would, andthought it wise, no doubt, to enjoy themselves to-day.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Goddard was the mistress of a School not of a sem-inary, or an establishment, or any thing which professed, in long sentences of refined nonsense, to combine liberal acquirements with elegant morality, upon new principles and new systems and where young ladies for enormous pay might be screwed out of health and into vanity but a real, honest, old-fashioned Boarding-school, where a reasonable quantity of accomplishments were sold at a rea-sonable price, and where girls might be sent to be out of the way, and scramble themselves into a little education, with-out any danger of coming back prodigies.
-- Your meaning must be unequivocal; no doubts or de-murs: and such expressions of gratitude and concern for the pain you are inflicting as propriety requires, will present themselves unbidden to your mind, I am persuaded.
-- Men of family would not be very fond of connecting themselves with a girl of such obscurity and most prudent men would be afraid of the inconvenience and disgrace they might be involved in, when the mystery of her parentage came to be revealed.
-- The Picture, elegantly framed, came safely to hand soon after Mr. Elton's return, and being hung over the mantel-piece of the common sitting-room, he got up to look at it, and sighed out his half sentences of admiration just as he ought; and as for Harriet's feelings, they were visibly form-ing themselves into as strong and steady an attachment as her youth and sort of mind admitted.
-- The bustle and joy of such an arrival, the many to be talked to, welcomed, encouraged, and variously dispersed and disposed of, produced a noise and confusion which his nerves could not have borne un-der any other cause, nor have endured much longer even for this; but the ways of Hartfield and the feelings of her fa-ther were so respected by Mrs. John Knightley, that in spite of maternal solicitude for the immediate enjoyment of her little ones, and for their having instantly all the liberty and attendance, all the eating and drinking, and sleeping and playing, which they could possibly wish for, without the smallest delay, the children were never allowed to be long a disturbance to him, either in themselves or in any restless attendance on them.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To find themselves utterly alone at night where company is desirable and expected makes some people fearful; but a case more trying by far to the nerves is to discover some mysterious companionship when intuition, sensation, memory, analogy, testimony, probability, induction every kind of evidence in the logician's list have united to persuade consciousness that it is quite in isolation.
-- On the higher levels the dead and dry carcasses of leaves tapped the ground as they bowled along helter-skelter upon the shoulders of the wind, and little birds in the hedges were rustling their feathers and tucking themselves in comfortably for the night, retaining their places if Oak kept moving, but flying away if he stopped to look at them.
-- Then a superincumbent bundle rolled down, with a whisking noise; flames elongated, and bent themselves about with a quiet roar, but no crackle.
-- Lively voices were heard this morning in the upper rooms, the main staircase to which was of hard oak, the balusters, heavy as bed-posts, being turned and moulded in the quaint fashion of their century, the handrail as stout as a parapet-top, and the stairs themselves continually twisting round like a person trying to look over his shoulder.
-- MISTRESS AND MENHalf-an-hour later Bathsheba, in finished dress, and followed by Liddy, entered the upper end of the old hall to find that her men had all deposited themselves on a long form and a settle at the lower extremity.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The subject between the two windows is the banquet given by Calypso to the son of Ulysses, displayed thereon for the admiration of the boarders, and has furnished jokes these forty years to the young men who show themselves superior to their position by making fun of the dinners to which poverty condemns them.
-- At that time one of the rooms was tenanted by a law student, a young man from the neighborhood of Angouleme, one of a large family who pinched and starved themselves to spare twelve hundred francs a year for him.
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