| 单词 | ourselves |
| 释义 | our·selves 1. < we're doing it solely for ourselves > < busying ourselves only with what concerns us > < we're getting ourselves a new home > (2) for emphasis in apposition with we or who < we ourselves will never go > < we can speak with some certainty, we who have ourselves had the same experience > (3) for emphasis instead of nonreflexive us as object of a preposition or direct or indirect object of a verb < this pleases ourselves but no one else > (4) for emphasis instead of we or instead of we ourselves as predicate nominative < the only ones that want to do it are ourselves > or in comparisons after than or as < no one knows more about it than ourselves > or as part of a compound subject < our children and ourselves will be glad to come > or archaically or dialectally as only subject of a verb < ourselves were country folk — Elizabeth Dye > (5) in absolute constructions < ourselves hardly able to see what was happening, they shut the door in our face > 2. < we were groggy for a moment but quickly came to ourselves > : our normal, healthy, or sane selves < we had been ill, but today we are again ourselves > |
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