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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They will not throw themselves upon my back in their hundreds, but ' 'I know it,' said Bagheera.
-- The very cattle that would trample a white man to death allow themselves to be banged and bullied and shouted at by children that hardly come up to their noses.
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：
-- While the husbandman shrank back from the dangerous passes, within the safer boundaries of the more ancient set-tlements, armies larger than those that had often disposed of the scepters of the mother countries, were seen to bury themselves in these forests, whence they rarely returned but in skeleton bands, that were haggard with care or dejected by defeat.
-- His companions were not long in comprehending his wishes, and laying aside their firearms, they parted, taking opposite sides of the path, and burying themselves in the thicket, with such cautious movements, that their steps were inaudible.
-- 'The pale faces make themselves dogs to their women,' muttered the Indian, in his native language, 'and when they want to eat, their warriors must lay aside the tomahawk to feed their laziness.'
-- Placing it in a favorable position, he joined the females, who now found themselves alone with him for the first time since they had left the friendly ramparts of Fort Edward.
-- This feeling seemed also common to the natives, who placed themselves in positions which commanded a full view of both shores, while their own persons were effectually con-cealed from observation.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides, there is no encouragement for ghosts in most of our villages, for they have scarcely had time to finish their first nap and turn themselves in their graves, before their surviving friends have travelled away from the neighborhood; so that when they turn out at night to walk their rounds, they have no ac-quaintance left to call upon.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It seizes with avidity upon any incidents, surprising or mysterious, in the career of those who have at all distinguished themselves from their fellows, and invents a legend to which it then attaches a fanatical belief.
-- The younger generation, conscious of strength and tumultuous, have done with knocking at the door; they have burst in and seated themselves in our seats.
-- Of their elders some, by imitating the antics of youth, strive to persuade themselves that their day is not yet over; they shout with the lustiest, but the war cry sounds hollow in their mouth; they are like poor wantons attempting with pencil, paint and powder, with shrill gaiety, to recover the illusion of their spring.
-- I admire their polish their youth is already so accomplished that it seems absurd to speak of promise I marvel at the felicity of their style; but with all their copiousness (their vocabulary suggests that they fingered Roget's Thesaurus in their cradles) they say nothing to me: to my mind they know too much and feel too obviously; I cannot stomach the heartiness with which they slap me on the back or the emotion with which they hurl themselves on my bosom; their passion seems to me a little anaemic and their dreams a trifle dull.
-- As they stand they are like the figures in an old tapestry; they do not separate themselves from the background, and at a distance seem to lose their pattern, so that you have little but a pleasing piece of colour.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The five voyagers had hoisted themselves into the net, and clung to the meshes, gazing at the abyss.
-- The voyagers, aiding each other, managed to disengage themselves from the meshes of the net.
-- But Heaven had reserved them for a strange destiny, and after having, on the 20th of March, escaped from Richmond, besieged by the troops of General Ulysses Grant, they found themselves seven thousand miles from the capital of Virginia, which was the principal stronghold of the South, during the terrible War of Secession.
-- The truth was, that if the prisoners of the Secessionists could not leave the town, neither could the Secessionists themselves while the Northern army invested it.
-- They were furnished with arms in case they might have to defend themselves when they alighted, and provisions in the event of their aerial voyage being prolonged.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having dealt out these admonitions, the ladies fell to a more powerful assault than they had yet made upon the mixed tea, new bread, fresh butter, shrimps, and watercresses, and said that their vexation was so great to see her going on like that, that they could hardly bring themselves to eat a single morsel.
-- With that, Mr Quilp suffered himself to roll gradually off the desk until his short legs touched the ground, when he got upon them and led the way from the counting-house to the wharf outside, when the first objects that presented themselves were the boy who had stood on his head and another young gentleman of about his own stature, rolling in the mud together, locked in a tight embrace, and cuffing each other with mutual heartiness.
-- The good effect of this politic course was demonstrated by the speedy arrival of a small pewter pyramid, curiously constructed of platters and covers, whereof the boiled-beef-plates formed the base, and a foaming quart-pot the apex; the structure being resolved into its component parts afforded all things requisite and necessary for a hearty meal, to which Mr Swiveller and his friend applied themselves with great keenness and enjoyment.
-- Standing, however, being a tiresome attitude to a gentleman already fatigued with walking, and the dwarf being one of that kind of persons who usually make themselves at home, he soon cast his eyes upon a chair, into which he skipped with uncommon agility, and perching himself on the back with his feet upon the seat, was thus enabled to look on and listen with greater comfort to himself, besides gratifying at the same time that taste for doing something fantastic and monkey-like, which on all occasions had strong possession of him.
-- Some people, sir, would have ''Some people would have spared themselves the jabbering of such a parrot as you,' interposed the dwarf.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Only men--grown-up men--continued cheating and tormenting themselves and each other.
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