self是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 自我， 自己，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At one of these a lonely boy was reading near a feeble fire; and Scrooge sat down upon a form, and wept to see his poor forgotten self as he used to be.
-- Scrooge's former self grew larger at the words, and the room became a little darker and more dirty.
-- It was not until now, when the bright faces of his former self and Dick were turned from them, that he remembered the Ghost, and became conscious that it was looking full upon him, while the light upon its head burnt very clear.
-- His former self turned down the lamps as he gave utter-ance to the wish; and Scrooge and the Ghost again stood side by side in the open air.
-- For he had an expectation that the conduct of his future self would give him the clue he missed, and would render the solution of these riddles easy.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Towards nine o'clock he smoothed his ruffled aspect, and, presenting as respectable and business-like an exterior as he could overlay his natural self with, issued forth to the occupation of the day.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But on night duty, alone, he had to face the self he had been afraid to uncover, and he was homesick for the laboratory, for the thrill of uncharted discoveries, the quest below the surface and beyond the moment, the search for fundamental laws which the scientist (however blasphemously and colloquially he may describe it) exalts above temporary healing as the religious exalts the nature and terrible glory of God above pleasant daily virtues.
-- His haughty self was like a robber baron fallen into the hands of rebellious slaves, stooped under a filthy load, the proud eye rheumy and patient with despair, the sword hand chopped off, obscene flies crawling across the gnawed wrist.
-- He began, that hour, a sordid strategy which his old proud self would have called inconceivable; he began to equivocate, to put off announcement and production till he should have "cleared up a few points," while week on week Hunziker became more threatening.
-- He preached to himself, as Max Gottlieb had once preached to him, the loyalty of dissent, the faith of being very doubtful, the gospel of not bawling gospels, the wisdom of admitting the probable ignorance of one's self and of everybody else, and the energetic acceleration of a Movement for going very slow.
-- It was not very good council: he was so glorified by his unfolding work that his self could not be taken seriously.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I picture my small self in the dimly-lighted rooms, sitting with myhead upon my hand, listening to the doleful performance of Mr.Mell, and conning tomor- row's lessons.
-- But when she drew nearer, and I saw her blue eyeslooking bluer, and her dimpled face looking brighter, and herwhole self prettier and gayer, a curious feeling came over me thatmade me pretend not to know her, and pass by as if I were lookingat something a long way off.
-- As I laid down my pen,a moment since, to think of it, the air from the sea came blowing inagain, mixed with the perfume of the flowers; and I saw the old-fashioned furniture brightly rubbed and polished, my aunt'sinviolable chair and table by the round green fan in thebowwindow, the drugget-covered carpet, the cat, the kettle-holder,the two canaries, the old china, the punch-bowl full of dried rose-leaves, the tall press guarding all sorts of bottles and pots, and,wonderfully out of keeping with the rest, my dusty self upon thesofa, taking note of everything.
-- A moody smile thathad over-spread his features cleared off as he said this merrily, andhe was his own frank, winning self again.
-- Mas'r Davy, he can remember what she was; you may judge foryour own self what she is; but neither of you can't fully know whatshe has been, is, and will be, to my loving 'art.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They sat down to tea the same party round the same table how often it had been collected! and how often had her eyes fallen on the same shrubs in the lawn, and ob-served the same beautiful effect of the western sun! But never in such a state of spirits, never in any thing like it; and it was with difficulty that she could summon enough of her usual self to be the attentive lady of the house, or even the attentive daughter.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- (Calling one's self merely Somebody, without giving a name, is not to be taken as an example of the ill-breeding of the rural world: it springs from a refined modesty, of which townspeople, with their cards and announcements, have no notion whatever.)
-- The most tragic woman is cowed by a tragic man, and although Boldwood was, in vehemence and glow, nearly her own self rendered into another sex, Bathsheba's cheek quivered.
-- She could think of nothing better to do with her palpitating self than to go in here and hide; and entering, she lighted on a spot sheltered from the damp fog by a reclining trunk, where she sank down upon a tangled couch of fronds and stems.
-- She has a notion that a woman should not marry within seven years of her husband's disappearance that her own self shouldn't, I mean because his body was not found.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to contemplate the di-vine ideas of liberty and self sacrifice of which these sights were the monuments and the remembrancers.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But for all the modesty of her spreadingskirts, the demureness of hair netted smoothly into a chignon and the quietness of small white hands folded in her lap,her true self was poorly concealed.
-- They wanted her for her own self becausethey loved her.
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