itself是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为pron. (it的反身代词) 它自己， 它本身，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：
-- Still, M. Goriot was a lodger, and the widow's wounded self-love could not vent itself in an explosion of wrath; like a monk harassed by the prior of his convent, she was forced to stifle her sighs of disappointment, and to gulp down her craving for revenge.
-- He meant, like all great souls, that his success should be owing entirely to his merits; but his was pre-eminently a southern temperament, the execution of his plans was sure to be marred by the vertigo that seizes on youth when youth sees itself alone in a wide sea, uncertain how to spend its energies, whither to steer its course, how to adapt its sails to the winds.
-- Father Goriot, seated at the lower end of the table, close to the door through which the servant entered, raised his face; he had smelt at a scrap of bread that lay under his table napkin, an old trick acquired in his commercial capacity, that still showed itself at times.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My swelling heart involuntarily pours itself out thus.
-- I need not describe the feelings of those whose dearest ties are rent by that most irreparable evil, the void that presents itself to the soul, and the despair that is exhibited on the countenance.
-- It is so long before the mind can persuade itself that she whom we saw every day and whose very existence appeared a part of our own can have departed forever that the brightness of a beloved eye can have been extinguished and the sound of a voice so familiar and dear to the ear can be hushed, never more to be heard.
-- The ambition of the inquirer seemed to limit itself to the an-nihilation of those visions on which my interest in science was chiefly founded.
-- It was echoed from Saleve, the Juras, and the Alps of Savoy; vivid flashes of lightning dazzled my eyes, illuminating the lake, making 82 Frankensteinit appear like a vast sheet of fire; then for an instant every thing seemed of a pitchy darkness, until the eye recovered itself from the preceding flash.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By the time Scarlett had undressed and blown out the candle, her plan for tomorrow had worked itself out in everydetail.
-- As Melanie looked at Ashley, her plainface lit up as with an inner fire, for if ever a loving heart showed itself upon a face, it was showing now on MelanieHamilton's.
-- Restless, energetic people from the older sections of Georgia and from more distant states were drawn to this town thatsprawled itself around the junction of the railroads in its center.
-- The latter in itself was enough to attract attentionto him, for the uniforms of the soldiers were dingy and worn now and the civilians, even when turned out in their best,showed skillful patching and darning.
-- The large cut-glass bowl held at the door by the Elsings' butlerhad been emptied twice of its burden of silver coins: That in itself was enough to make the affair a success, for now adollar in silver was worth sixty dollars in Confederate paper money.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, I saw the damp lying on the bare hedges and spare grass, like a coarser sort of spiders' webs; hanging itself from twig to twig and blade to blade.
-- It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world; but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by, and I know right well that any good that intermixed itself with my apprenticeship came of plain contented Joe, and not of restlessly aspiring discontented me.
-- It doubled itself up the wrong way over Mrs. Pocket's arm, exhibited a pair of knitted shoes and dimpled ankles to the company in lieu of its soft face, and was carried out in the highest state of mutiny.
-- It was like pushing the chair itself back into the past, when we began the old slow circuit round about the ashes of the bridal feast.
-- But in the general tumbling up of the family, his tumbling out in life somewhere, was a thing to transact itself somehow.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The straw there-fore stretched itself from one bank to the other, and the coal, who was of an impetuous disposition, tripped quite boldly on to the newly-built bridge.
-- But one day as the queen was walking by the side of the river, at the bot-tom of the garden, she saw a poor little fish, that had thrown itself out of the water, and lay gasping and nearly dead on the bank.
-- In front of the door he observed a bird which had caught itself in the thicket.
-- At last it popped into Catherine's head that it was the door itself that was so heavy all the time: so she whispered, 'Frederick, I must throw the door down soon.'
-- It was not long before the dog fell in with some game on the way, and wanted to pursue it; but hardly had the dog run two steps when it stood before a deep pool, 347could go no farther, and a naked arm stretched itself out of the water, seized it, and drew it under.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is to be observed, that these ambassadors spoke to me, by an interpreter, the languages of both empires differing as much from each other as any two in Europe, and each nation priding itself upon the antiquity, beauty, and energy of their own tongue, with an avowed contempt for that of their neighbour; yet our emperor, standing upon the advan-tage he had got by the seizure of their fleet, obliged them to deliver their credentials, and make their speech, in the Lilli-putian tongue.
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