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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not at all; Fortune, who lets whole populations die of hunger, showered all her gifts at once upon the little aristocrat, like Kryloff's Cloud which passes over an arid plain and empties itself into the sea.
-- The journey in question is in itself too unimportant for his friends to recollect it after more than twenty years; and of course Mr. Burdovsky could have known nothing about it, for he was not born.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now there is a high mound before the city, rising by itself upon the plain.
-- As he was leaving the body, Thoas of Aetolia struck him in the chest near the nipple, and the point fixed itself in his lungs.
-- The car itself was made with plaited bands of gold and silver, and it had a double top-rail run-ning all round it.
-- I urged you not to do so, but you yielded to your own pride, and dis-honoured a hero whom heaven itself had honoured for you still hold the prize that had been awarded to him.
-- Therefore, my son, I will not stay here without you no, not though heaven itself vouchsafe to strip my years from off me, and make me young as I was when I first left Hellas the land of fair women.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was wrapped up from head to foot, and the brim of his soft felt hat hid every inch of his face but the shiny tip of his nose; the snow had piled itself against his shoulders and chest, and added a white crest to the burden he carried.
-- Then as swiftly came the sponge from the washstand; and then the chair, flinging the stranger's coat and trousers carelessly aside, and laughing drily in a voice singularly like the stranger's, turned itself up with its four legs at Mrs. Hall, seemed to take aim at her for a moment, and charged at her.
-- "Fetched off 'is wrapping, 'e did " In its struggles to see in through the open door, the crowd formed itself into a straggling wedge, with the more adventurous apex nearest the inn.
-- CHAPTER X MR. MARVEL'S VISIT TO IPING After the first gusty panic had spent itself Iping became argumentative.
-- After five minutes, during which his mind had travelled into a remote speculation of social conditions of the future, and lost itself at last over the time dimension, Dr. Kemp roused himself with a sigh, pulled down the window again, and returned to his writing desk.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All the time the strangeness of him was shaping itself in my mind; and as I talked I peered at his odd, pallid face in the dim light of the binnacle lantern behind me.
-- Then I recalled the expression of his face the previous night, and with that the memory of all I had experienced reconstruct-ed itself before me.
-- As soon as my hand is taken from them the beast begins to creep back, begins to assert itself again.'
-- By chance, one hopping to avoid us leapt into the hole caused by the uproot-ing of a wind-blown tree; before it could extricate itself we managed to catch it.
-- As I did so, the Hyena-swine saw the Thing, and flung itself upon it with an eager cry, thrusting thirsty teeth into its neck.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That was made already, six feet wide, in front of him, where the bent jungle-grass was trying to recover itself and stand up.
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：
-- With the high plain that there inter-posed itself to the further passage of the water, commenced a portage of as many miles, which conducted the adven-turer to the banks of the Hudson, at a point where, with the usual obstructions of the rapids, or rifts, as they were then termed in the language of the country, the river be-came navigable to the tide.
-- 'This beast, I rather conclude, friend, is not of home rais-ing, but is from foreign lands, or perhaps from the little island itself over the blue water?'
-- The vast canopy of woods spread itself to the margin of the river, overhanging the water, and shadowing its dark cur-rent with a deeper hue.
-- Behind these, the runner leaned against a tree, where he stood the close examination of the scout with an air unmoved, though with a look so dark and savage, that it might in itself excite fear.
-- It was the first opportunity possessed by Duncan and his companions to view the marked lineaments of either of their Indian atten-dants, and each individual of the party felt relieved from a burden of doubt, as the proud and determined, though wild expression of the features of the young warrior forced itself on their notice.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Just then the shadowy object of alarm put itself in motion, and with a scramble and a bound stood at once in the middle of the road.
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