myself是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为pron. 我自己; 我亲自,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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The stranger has gradually improved in health but is very silent and appears uneasy when anyone except myself enters his cabin.
-- Having conquered the violence of his feelings, he ap-peared to despise himself for being the slave of passion; and quelling the dark tyranny of despair, he led me again to converse concerning myself personally.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Why don't you say I'm a damned rascal and no gentleman and that I musttake myself off or you'll have one of these gallant boys in gray call me out?"
-- On the occasion of our first eventful meeting I thought to myself that I had at last met a girl who was notonly beautiful but who had courage.
-- "But I owe it to the Cause I I couldn't think of myself when you were offering so much in gold.
-- I give myself about six months more ofblockading and then I'm through.
-- Sometimes a cultured voice came from the shadows: "Madam, my abject apologies for disturbing you, but could I havewater for myself and my horse?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.
-- I earnestly expressed my hope that he wouldn't, and held tighter to the tombstone on which he had put me; partly, to keep myself upon it; partly, to keep myself from crying.
-- Having at that time to find out for myself what the expression meant, and knowing her to have a hard and heavy hand, and to be much in the habit of laying it upon her husband as well as upon me, I supposed that Joe Gargery and I were both brought up by hand.
-- If I slept at all that night, it was only to imagine myself drifting down the river on a strong spring-tide, to the Hulks; a ghostly pirate calling out to me through a speaking-trumpet, as I passed the gibbet-station, that I had better come ashore and be hanged there at once, and not put it off.
-- One black ox, with a white cravat on,--who even had to my awakened conscience something of a clerical air,--fixed me so obstinately with his eyes, and moved his blunt head round in such an accusatory manner as I moved round, that I blubbered out to him, "I couldn't help it, sir!It wasn't for myself I took it!"
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- said the dog, 'my master was going to knock me on the head, because I am old and weak, and can no longer make myself useful to him in hunting; so I ran away; but what can I do to earn my live-lihood?'
-- The straw hit on a good idea, and said: 'I will lay myself straight across, and then you can walk over on me as on a bridge.'
-- Then said a straw, 'I will lay myself across, and you may pass over upon me.'
-- Then a large log of wood came and said, 'I am big enough; I will lay myself across the stream, and you shall pass over upon me.'
-- He drew out his sword and gave each of them a couple of thrusts in the breast, and then went out to the horsemen and said: 'The work is done; I have finished both of them off, but it was hard work!They tore up trees in their sore need, and defended themselves with them, but all that is to no purpose when a man like myself comes, who can kill seven at one blow.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Yet, so far have you been from answering my ex-pectation in any of your letters; that on the contrary you are loading our carrier every week with libels, and keys, and reflections, and memoirs, and second parts; wherein I see myself accused of reflecting upon great state folk; of de-grading human nature (for so they have still the confidence to style it), and of abusing the female sex.
-- I have other complaints to make upon this vexatious oc-casion; but I forbear troubling myself or you any further.
-- He sent me to Emanuel College in Cambridge at fourteen years old, where I resided three years, and applied myself close to my studies; but the charge of maintaining me, although I had a very scanty allowance, being too great for a narrow fortune, I was bound appren-tice to Mr. James Bates, an eminent surgeon in London, with whom I continued four years.
-- I often let my legs drop, and could feel no bottom; but when I was almost gone, and able to struggle no longer, I found myself within my depth; and by this time the storm was much abated.
-- I was extremely tired, and with that, and the heat of the weather, and about half a pint of brandy that I drank as I left the ship, I found myself much inclined to sleep.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I have systematically devoted myself (as you know) to the education of the reason of my family.
-- 'And yet, Bounderby, it would appear from this unexpected circumstance of to-day, though in itself a trifling one, as if something had crept into Thomas's and Louisa's minds which is or rather, which is not I don't know that I can express myself better than by saying which has never been intended to be developed, and in which their reason has no part.'
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