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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes at a sudden bend of the road, the MADRINA would disappear, and the little caravan had to guide themselves by the distant tinkle of her bell.
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：
-- I had descended from my gig and was standing in front of him, when I saw his eyes fix themselves over my shoulder, and stare past me with an expression of the most dreadful horror.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When day dawned, two passengers in one of the third- class carriages found themselves opposite each other.
-- Aglaya and Alexandra had settled themselves with folded hands on a sofa, evidently meaning to be listeners.
-- The rest of the guests (an old tutor or schoolmaster, good-ness knows why invited; a young man, very timid, and shy and silent; a rather loud woman of about forty, apparent-ly an actress; and a very pretty, well-dressed German lady who hardly said a word all the evening) not only had no gift for enlivening the proceedings, but hardly knew what to say for themselves when addressed.
-- They went across the yard, and found themselves in a delightful little garden with the trees already in their summer dress of green, thanks to the un-usually fine weather.
-- The prince took the first opportunity of informing the Epanchin ladies that he had intended to pay them a visit that day, if they had not themselves come this afternoon, and Lizabetha Prokofievna replied that she hoped he would still do so.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the son of Atreus bade the people purify them-selves; so they purified themselves and cast their filth into the sea.
-- Thus did they busy themselves throughout the host.
-- Thus all day long the young men worshipped the god with song, hymning him and chaunting the joyous paean, and the god took pleasure in their voices; but when the sun went down, and it came on dark, they laid themselves down to sleep by the stern cables of the ship, and when the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared they again set sail for the host of the Achaeans.
-- They swarmed like bees that sally from some hollow cave and flit in countless throng among the spring flowers, bunched in knots and clusters; even so did the mighty multitude pour from ships and tents to the assembly, and range themselves upon the wide-watered shore, while among them ran Wild-fire Rumour, messenger of Jove, urging them ever to the fore.
-- Either they have not left Lacedaemon, or else, though they have brought their ships, they will not show themselves in battle for the shame and disgrace that I have brought upon them.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The bed-clothes gathered themselves together, leapt up suddenly into a sort of peak, and then jumped headlong over the bottom rail.
-- But those who saw the fugitive nearer, and perceived the abject terror on his perspiring face, being themselves in the open roadway, did not share in the doctor's contempt.
-- The men in the kitchen found themselves clutching at and struggling with empty air.
-- He gave them extraordinary but quite explicit instructions to lay breakfast for two in the belvedere study and then to confine themselves to the basement and ground-floor.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Neither Montgomery nor his companion took the slightest notice of me, but busied themselves in assisting and directing the four or five sailors who were unloading the goods.
-- They build themselves their dens, gather fruit, and pull herbs marry even.
-- I suppose those that were made of beasts of prey will make silly asses of themselves sooner or later.
-- They knew now that we of the Whips could be killed even as they themselves were killed.
-- The Beast People by that time had, with one or two exceptions, left the ravine and made themselves lairs according to their taste among the thickets of the is-land.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The reason the beasts give among themselves is that Man is the weakest and most defenseless of all living things, and it is unsports-manlike to touch him.
-- His escort would rush him up a tree till he felt the thin-nest topmost branches crackle and bend under them, and then with a cough and a whoop would fling themselves into the air outward and downward, and bring up, hanging by their hands or their feet to the lower limbs of the next tree.
-- They had brought the boy to the Lost City, and were very much pleased with themselves for the time.
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