himself是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为pron. 他自己; 他本人,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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship.
-- The picture represents a Cape-Horner in a great hurricane; the half-foundered ship weltering there with its three dismantled masts alone visible; and an exasperated whale, purposing to spring clean over the craft, is in the enormous act of impaling himself upon the three mast-heads.
-- But the fare was of the most substantial kind not only meat and potatoes, but dumplings; good heavens!dumplings for supper!One young fellow in a green box coat, addressed himself to these dumplings in a most direful manner.
-- Ignorance is the parent of fear, and being completely nonplussed and confounded about the stranger, I confess I was now as much afraid of him as if it was the devil himself who had thus broken into my room at the dead of night.
-- At length, by dint of much wriggling, and loud and incessant expostulations upon the unbecomingness of his hugging a fellow male in that matrimonial sort of style, I succeeded in extracting a grunt; and presently, he drew back his arm, shook himself all over like a Newfoundland dog just from the water, and sat up in bed, stiff as a pike-staff, looking at me, and rubbing his eyes as if he did not altogether remember how I came to be there, though a dim consciousness of knowing something about me seemed slowly dawning over him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The fact is, that there was considerable difficulty in inducing Oliver to take upon himself the office of respiration,--a troublesome practice, but one which custom has rendered necessary to our easy existence; and for some time he lay gasping on a little flock mattress, rather unequally poised between this world and the next: the balance being decidedly in favour of the latter.
-- The beadle drew himself up with great pride, and said, 'I inwented it.'
-- For the combination of both these blessings in the one simple process of picking oakum, Oliver bowed low by the direction of the beadle, and was then hurried away to a large ward; where, on a rough, hard bed, he sobbed himself to sleep.
-- The master, in his cook's uniform, stationed himself at the copper; his pauper assistants ranged themselves behind him; the gruel was served out; and a long grace was said over the short commons.
-- It appears, at first sight not unreasonable to suppose, that, if he had entertained a becoming feeling of respect for the prediction of the gentleman in the white waistcoat, he would have established that sage individual's prophetic character, once and for ever, by tying one end of his pocket-handkerchief to a hook in the wall, and attaching himself to the other.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mr. Bingley had soon made himself acquainted with all the principal people in the room; he was lively and unre-served, danced every dance, was angry that the ball closed so early, and talked of giving one himself at Netherfield.
-- So high and so conceited that there was no enduring him!He walked here, and he walked there, fancying himself so very great!Not handsome enough to dance with!I wish you had been there, my dear, to have given him one of your set-downs.
-- It had given him a disgust to his business, and to his residence in a small market town; and, in quitting them both, he had removed with his family to a house about a mile from Mery- ton, denominated from that period Lucas Lodge, where he could think with pleasure of his own importance, and, un- shackled by business, occupy himself solely in being civil to all the world.
-- But no sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she hardly had a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes.
-- Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His theatrical air, as he stood with one arm on his hip within the folds of his cloak, together with his manner of disregarding his companion and addressing the opposite wall instead, seemed to intimate that he was rehearsing for the President, whose examination he was shortly to undergo, rather than troubling himself merely to enlighten so small a person as John Baptist Cavalletto.
-- He very briefly directed the placing of Monsieur Rigaud in the midst of the party, put himself with consummate indifference at their head, gave the word 'march!'
-- Father and Mother Meagles sat with their daughter between them, the last three on one side of the table: on the opposite side sat Mr Clennam; a tall French gentleman with raven hair and beard, of a swart and terrible, not to say genteelly diabolical aspect, but who had shown himself the mildest of men; and a handsome young Englishwoman, travelling quite alone, who had a proud observant face, and had either withdrawn herself from the rest or been avoided by the rest nobody, herself excepted perhaps, could have quite decided which.
-- To sit speechless himself in the midst of rigid silence, glancing in dread from the one averted face to the other, had been the peacefullest occupation of his childhood.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Act fourth displayed the despairing Roderigo on the point of stabbing himself because he has been told that Zara has deserted him.
-- No sooner had the guest paid the usual stale com-pliments and bowed himself out, than Jenny, under pretense of asking an important question, informed Mr. Davis, the teacher, that Amy March had pickled limes in her desk.
-- On one occasion, Mr. Pickwick put on a pair of spectacles with-out any glass, rapped upon the table, hemmed, and having stared hard at Mr. Snodgrass, who was tilting back in his chair, till he arranged himself properly, began to read: 'THE PICKWICK PORTFOLIO’ MAY 20, 18 - POET'S CORNER ANNIVERSARY ODE Again we meet to celebrate With badge and solemn rite, Our fifty-second anniversary, In Pickwick Hall, tonight.
-- The old gentleman liked the fun, and amused himself by sending odd bundles, mysterious messages, and funny telegrams, and his gardener, who was smitten with Hannah's charms, actually sent a love letter to Jo's care.
-- Jo opened her lips to say something rude, but checked herself in time, colored up to her forehead and stood a min-ute, hammering down a wicket with all her might, while Fred hit the stake and declared himself out with much ex-ultation.
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