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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He belonged to the number of young men who know as children that their parents' hopes are centered on them, and deliberately prepare themselves for a great career, subordinating their studies from the first to this end, carefully watching the indications of the course of events, calculating the probable turn that affairs will take, that they may be the first to profit by them.
-- As a matter of fact, she was as suspicious as a cat; but she was like many other people, who cannot trust their own kin and put themselves at the mercy of the next chance comer--an odd but common phenomenon, whose causes may readily be traced to the depths of the human heart.
-- He was proof against her malice, and in desperation she spoke to him and of him slightingly before the other lodgers, who began to amuse themselves at his expense, and so gratified her desire for revenge.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus far I have gone, tracing a secure way over the pathless seas, the very stars themselves being witnesses and testimonies of my triumph.
-- On the birth of a second son, my junior by seven years, my parents gave up entirely their wandering life and fixed themselves in their native country.
-- Clerval spoke thus as we hurried through the streets; the words impressed themselves on my mind and I remem-bered them afterwards in solitude.
-- Alas!Victor, when falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?
-- You have travelled; you have spent several years of your 230 Frankensteinlife at Ingolstadt; and I confess to you, my friend, that when I saw you last autumn so unhappy, flying to solitude from the society of every creature, I could not help supposing that you might regret our connection and believe yourself bound in honour to fulfil the wishes of your parents, al-though they opposed themselves to your inclinations.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Although they considered themselves Scarlett'sfavored suitors, they had never before gained tokens of this favor so easily.
-- Arrangements had not yet beencompleted for obtaining the full quota of horses, but those who had horses performed what they imagined to be cavalrymaneuvers in the field behind the courthouse, kicked up a great deal of dust, yelled themselves hoarse and waved theRevolutionary-war swords that had been taken down from parlor walls.
-- Most small people who take themselves seriously are a little ridiculous; but the bantam cock is respected in thebarnyard, and so it was with Gerald.
-- They were a close-mouthed and stiff-necked family, who kept strictly to themselves and intermarried with theirCarolina relatives, and Gerald was not alone in disliking them, for the County people were neighborly and sociable andnone too tolerant of anyone lacking in those same qualities.
-- The house negroes of theCounty considered themselves superior to white trash, and their unconcealed scorn stung him, while their more secureposition in life stirred his envy.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And if my men can bear a hand anywhere, they'll make themselves useful."
-- said the sergeant, "they'll find themselves trapped in a circle, I expect, sooner than they count on.
-- As I watched them while they all stood clustering about the forge, enjoying themselves so much, I thought what terrible good sauce for a dinner my fugitive friend on the marshes was.
-- They had not enjoyed themselves a quarter so much, before the entertainment was brightened with the excitement he furnished.
-- There we were stopped a few minutes by a signal from the sergeant's hand, while two or three of his men dispersed themselves among the graves, and also examined the porch.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had wandered a long way; and when they looked to see which way they should go home, they found themselves at a loss to know what path to take.
-- The ass and the dog laid themselves down under a great tree, and the cat climbed up into the branches; while the cock, thinking that the higher he sat the safer he should be, flew 24 Grimms' Fairy Talesup to the very top of the tree, and then, according to his cus-tom, before he went to sleep, looked out on all sides of him to see that everything was well.
-- Then they rose up and opened their drawers and boxes, and took out all their fine clothes, and dressed themselves at the glass, and skipped about as if they were eager to begin danc-ing.
-- Then down they all went, and at the bottom they found themselves in a most delightful grove of trees; and the leaves were all of silver, and glittered and sparkled beautifully.
-- And six mice built a little hearse to carry her to her grave; and when it was ready they harnessed themselves before it, and Chanticleer drove them.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were several of his priests and lawyers pres-ent (as I conjectured by their habits), who were commanded to address themselves to me; and I spoke to them in as many languages as I had the least smattering of, which were High and Low Dutch, Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, and Lingua Franca, but all to no purpose.
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