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。
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Bless you, I don't spend it, it spends itself somehow, and is gone before I know it.'
-- 'My lady,' as her friends called her, sincerely desired to be a genuine lady, and was so at heart, but had yet to learn that money cannot buy refinement of nature, that rank does not always confer nobility, and that true breeding makes itself felt in spite of external drawbacks.
-- Meg agreed at once, and promised to her aid, gladly offering anything she possessed, from her little house itself to her very best salt-spoons.
-- She wondered, and was thankful also, that her parents did not seem to see what she saw, and during the quiet weeks when the shadows grew so plain to her, she said nothing of it to those at home, believing that it would tell itself when Beth came back no better.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the light looked so dim, and the place, for the time, looked quiet enough, and the dilapidated little wooden house itself looked as if it might have been carted here from the ruins of some burnt district, and as the swinging sign had a poverty-stricken sort of creak to it, I thought that here was the very spot for cheap lodgings, and the best of pea coffee.
-- The town itself is perhaps the dearest place to live in, in all New England.
-- The wife of a whaling captain had provided the chapel with a handsome pair of red worsted man-ropes for this ladder, which, being itself nicely headed, and stained with a mahogany colour, the whole contrivance, considering what manner of chapel it was, seemed by no means in bad taste.
-- Nor was the pulpit itself without a trace of the same sea-taste that had achieved the ladder and the picture.
-- He will not confess himself suspected; but that itself is strong suspicion.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Although I am not disposed to maintain that the being born in a workhouse, is in itself the most fortunate and enviable circumstance that can possibly befall a human being, I do mean to say that in this particular instance, it was the best thing for Oliver Twist that could by possibility have occurred.
-- This suggested itself as the very best thing that could possibly be done with him: the probability being, that the skipper would flog him to death, in a playful mood, some day after dinner, or would knock his brains out with an iron bar; both pastimes being, as is pretty generally known, very favourite and common recreations among gentleman of that class.
-- The more the case presented itself to the board, in this point of view, the more manifold the advantages of the step appeared; so, they came to the conclusion that the only way of providing for Oliver effectually, was to send him to sea without delay.
-- Mrs. Sowerberry, who had a good deal of taste in the undertaking way, was much struck by the novelty of this idea; but, as it would have been compromising her dignity to have said so, under existing circumstances, she merely inquired, with much sharpness, why such an obvious suggestion had not presented itself to her husband's mind before?
-- As the atrocity presented itself to Mr. Bumble's mind in full force, he struck the counter sharply with his cane, and became flushed with indignation.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'With all my heart; I will buy Pemberley itself if Darcy will sell it.'
-- But in all, and in almost every line of each, there was a want of that cheerfulness which had been used to charac- terise her style, and which, proceeding from the serenity of a mind at ease with itself and kindly disposed towards ev- eryone, had been scarcely ever clouded.
-- The envelope itself was likewise full.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was not so much surprised with the lightning as I was with the thought which darted into my mind as swift as the lightning itself - Oh, my powder!My very heart sank within me when I thought that, at one blast, all my powder might be destroyed; on which, not my defence only, but the providing my food, as I thought, entirely depended.
-- All this while I sat upon the ground very much terrified and dejected; when on a sudden it came into my thoughts, that these winds and rain being the consequences of the earthquake, the earthquake itself was spent and over, and I might venture into my cave again.
-- - Went to the wreck again, not with an intent to work, but found the weight of the wreck had broke itself down, the beams being cut; that several pieces of the ship seemed to lie loose, and the inside of the hold lay so open that I could see into it; but it was almost full of water and sand.
-- But now, when I began to be sick, and a leisurely view of the miseries of death came to place itself before me; when my spirits began to sink under the burden of a strong distem-per, and nature was exhausted with the violence of the fever; conscience, that had slept so long, began to awake, and I be-gan to reproach myself with my past life, in which I had so evidently, by uncommon wickedness, provoked the justice of God to lay me under uncommon strokes, and to deal with me in so vindictive a manner.
-- I abused their help and assistance, who would have lifted me in the world, and would have made everything easy to me; and now I have difficulties to struggle with, too great for even nature itself to support, and no assistance, no help, no comfort, no advice.'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You would rob it of its simplicity by imaginary improvement!and this dear parlour in which our acquaintance first began, and in which so many happy hours have been since spent by us together, you would degrade to the condition of a common entrance, and every body would be eager to pass through the room which has hitherto contained within itself more real accommodation and comfort than any other apartment of the handsomest dimensions in the world could possibly afford."
-- It so happened that while her two sisters with Mrs. Jennings were first calling on her in Harley Street, another of her acquaintance had dropt in a circumstance in itself not apparently likely to produce evil to her.
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