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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The jurymen talked among themselves of the weather, of the premature spring, of the business before them.
-- They themselves felt it, and all three, as if confused by their own greatness, modestly lowered their eyes, and hastily seated themselves behind the table on which clean paper and freshly-pointed lead pencils of all sizes had been placed.
-- The gentleman declared to the presiding justice that he was chosen foreman, and stepping over the feet of each other, the jury again seated themselves in the two rows of high-backed chairs.
-- As soon as the jury seated themselves the presiding justice instructed them in their rights, duties and responsibilities.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To adorn themselves with flowers, to dance, to sing in the sunlight: so much was left of the artistic spirit, and no more.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And when they wake up in the summer, Kitty, they dress themselves all in green, and dance about whenever the wind blows oh, that's very pretty!'
-- They placed themselves close to where Hatta, the other messenger, was standing watching the fight, with a cup of tea in one hand and a piece of bread-and-butter in the other.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last the speakers seemed to have paused and perhaps to have sat down, for not only did they cease to draw any nearer, but the birds themselves began to grow more quiet and to settle again to their places in the swamp.
-- Nor was that all, for crawling together on flat tables of rock or letting themselves drop into the sea with loud reports I beheld huge slimy monsters soft snails, as it were, of incredible bigness two or three score of them together, making the rocks to echo with their barkings.
-- The embers of the great fire had so far burned themselves out and now glowed so low and duskily that I understood why these conspirators desired a torch.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In these simultaneous observations they thought themselves justified in estimating the minimum length of the mammal at more than three hundred and fifty feet, as the Shannon and Helvetia were of smaller dimensions than it, though they measured three hundred feet over all.
-- My two companions stretched themselves on the cabin carpet, and were soon sound asleep.
-- I opened my mouth wide, and my lungs saturated themselves with fresh particles.
-- The attitude of the four sailors was frightful, distorted as they were by their convulsive movements, whilst making a last effort to free themselves from the cords that bound them to the vessel.
-- These polypi are found particularly in the rough beds of the sea, near the surface; and consequently it is from the upper part that they begin their operations, in which they bury themselves by degrees with the debris of the secretions that support them.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sisters found themselves confronted by a void, a terrifying chasm, as if they had looked over the edge.
-- The two sisters held themselves tense, and went straight towards the gate.
-- There was none that had anything unknown, unresolved, until the Criches themselves began to appear.
-- "One knows those women are impudent these free women who have emancipated themselves from the aristocracy."
-- "They arrange themselves naturally we see it now, everywhere."
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hindley and Cathy contented themselves with looking and listening till peace was restored: then, both began searching their father's pockets for the presents he had promised them.
-- Ah, I thought, there will be no saving him: he's doomed, and flies to his fate!And so it was: he turned abruptly, hastened into the house again, shut the door behind him; and when I went in a while after to inform them that Earnshaw had come home rabid drunk, ready to pull the whole place about our ears (his ordinary frame of mind in that condition), I saw the quarrel had merely effected a closer intimacy had broken the outworks of youthful timidity, and enabled them to forsake the disguise of friendship, and confess themselves lovers.
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