单词 | himself |
释义 | him·self 1. < everyone must look out for himself > < in those days Providence was still busying himself with everybody's affairs — Arnold Bennett > < he got himself a new suit > (2) for emphasis in apposition with he, who, that, or a noun < he himself informed me > < he informed me himself > < the composer himself conducted the symphony > < the composer conducted the symphony himself > < criticizing the king's advisers and the king himself > < the judge, who had once been a lawyer himself > (3) for emphasis instead of nonreflexive him as object of a preposition or direct or indirect object of a verb < his income supports his wife and himself > (4) for emphasis instead of he or instead of he himself as subject of a verb < he was never influenced in art by any fashions save those himself created — Osbert Sitwell > or as predicate nominative < he has only one loyal disciple and that is himself > or in comparisons after than or as < he associated mainly with people younger than himself > (5) in absolute constructions < himself simple, fair-minded, unhappy, he comes in contact with the more extravagant varieties of Americans abroad — Carl Van Doren > 2. < he came to himself > : his normal, healthy, or sane self < ill for some time, he is now himself again > 3. Irish & Scotland < she has … breakfast on the table before himself is up — Cahir Healy > 4. < did he hurt himself > — used in some English dialects in addressing a boy or a person of higher or lower social status than the speaker; compare he I 4 |
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