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。
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I observed in this last part of his discourse, which was truly prophetic, though I suppose my father did not know it to be so himself - I say, I observed the tears run down his face very plentifully, especially when he spoke of my broth-er who was killed: and that when he spoke of my having leisure to repent, and none to assist me, he was so moved that he broke off the discourse, and told me his heart was so full he could say no more to me.
-- The master, though vigilant in the business of preserving the ship, yet as he went in and out of his cabin by me, I could hear him softly to himself say, sev-eral times, 'Lord be merciful to us!we shall be all lost!we shall be all undone!'
-- During these first hur-ries I was stupid, lying still in my cabin, which was in the steerage, and cannot describe my temper: I could ill resume the first penitence which I had so apparently trampled upon and hardened myself against: I thought the bitterness of death had been past, and that this would be nothing like the first; but when the master himself came by me, as I said just now, and said we should be all lost, I was dreadfully frighted.
-- But our patron, warned by this disaster, resolved to take more care of himself for the future; and having lying by him the longboat of our English ship that he had taken, he resolved he would not go a- fishing any more without a compass and some provision; so he ordered the carpenter of his ship, who also was an English slave, to build a little state-room, or cabin, in the middle of the long- boat, like that of a barge, with a place to stand behind it to steer, and haul home the main-sheet; the room before for a hand or two to stand and work the sails.
-- 'But,' said I, 'you swim well enough to reach to the shore, and the sea is calm; make the best of your way to shore, and I will do you no harm; but if you come near the boat I'll shoot you through the head, for I am re-solved to have my liberty;' so he turned himself about, and swam for the shore, and I make no doubt but he reached it with ease, for he was an excellent swimmer.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mr. Dashwood had wished for it more for the sake of his wife and daughters than for himself or his son; but to his son, and his son's son, a child of four years old, it was secured, in such a way, as to leave to himself no power of providing for those who were most dear to him, and who most needed a provision by any charge on the estate, or by any sale of its valuable woods.
-- He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted and rather selfish is to be ill-disposed: but he was, in general, well respected; for he conducted himself with propriety in the discharge of his ordinary duties.
-- When he gave his promise to his father, he meditated within himself to increase the fortunes of his sisters by the present of a thousand pounds a-piece.
-- He then really thought himself equal to it.
-- How could he answer it to himself to rob his child, and his only child too, of so large a sum?
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He leaned forward to put his elbows upon the back of her seat and proceeded to make himself volubly agreeable.
-- The latter talked in a subdued tone, telling the little she knew about it, while Hanson concerned himself with the baby.
-- When these things would fall upon Drouet's ears, he would straighten himself a little more stiffly and eat with solid comfort.
-- He could talk races with Hurstwood, tell interesting incidents concerning himself and his experiences with women, and report the state of trade in the cities which he visited, and so managed to make himself almost invariably agreeable.
-- "Now," he said, getting Carrie and himself comfortably settled, "what will you have?"
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then he went down on all fours and crawled off, begging them to let him alone, and he rolled himself up in his blan-ket and wallowed in under the old pine table, still a-begging; and then he went to crying.
-- Nobody could spread himself like Tom Sawyer in such a thing as that.
-- Pretty soon he gapped and stretched himself and hove off the blanket, and it was Miss Watson's Jim!I bet I was glad to see him.
-- Well, by night I forgot all about the snake, and when Jim flung himself down on the blanket while I struck a light the snake's mate was there, and bit him.
-- Jim sucked and sucked at the jug, and now and then he got out of his head and pitched around and yelled; but ev-ery time he come to himself he went to sucking at the jug again.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When he opened his eyes, he found himself sitting on the floor.
-- CHAPTER 2 Mastro Cherry gives the piece of wood to his friend Geppetto, who takes it to make himself a Marionette that will dance, fence, and turn somersaults.
-- "Here I am, at your service," answered the carpenter, raising himself on to his knees.
-- On hearing himself called Polendina, Mastro Geppetto turned the color of a red pepper and, facing the carpenter, said to him angrily: "Why do you insult me?"
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