ourselves
柯林斯词典
1. PRON-REFL You use ourselves to refer to yourself and one or more other people as a group. 我們自己[v PRON, prep PRON]
We sat around the fire to keep ourselves warm. 我們圍火而坐取煖。
2. PRON-REFL A speaker or writer sometimes uses ourselves to refer to people in general. Ourselves is used as the object of a verb or preposition when the subject refers to the same people. (泛指) 我們自己[v PRON, prep PRON]
We all know that when we exert ourselves our heart rate increases. 大家都知道,儅我們竭盡全力時,心率會加速。
3. PRON-REFL-EMPH You use ourselves to emphasize a first person plural subject. In more formal English, ourselves is sometimes used instead of "us" as the object of a verb or preposition, for emphasis. (正式英語中,替代)(us)(作動詞或介詞賓語,用以強調) 我們自己[強調]
Others are feeling just the way we ourselves would feel in the same situation. 他人現在所感受的,我們自己在相同的情況下也會同樣感受到。
4. PRON-REFL-EMPH If you say something such as "We did it ourselves," you are indicating that the people you are referring to did it, rather than anyone else. 我們親自
We villagers built that ourselves, we had no help from anyone. 那是我們這些村民自己脩建的,沒有用任何人幫忙。
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ourselves /aʊəˈsɛlvz/
剑桥词典
- used when the subject of the verb is "we" or the speaker and one or more others , and the object is the same group of people
- Against all probability we found ourselves in the same hotel .
- It was so noisy that we couldn't hear ourselves speak .
- We amused ourselves by watching the passers-by.
- Let's not trouble ourselves about the precise details at the moment .
- We must ensure that we do not set ourselves goals that are not attainable . 返回 ourselves
(we 的反身形式)我們自己
We went to get ourselves something to eat . 我們去給自己找了點喫的。
John and I promised ourselves a good holiday this year . 約翰和我打算今年一定好好度一次假。
formal
used to emphasize the subject "we"
(強調主語)我們自己,我們自身,我們親自
We ourselves realize that there are flaws in the plan . 我們自己意識到這個方案有瑕疵。
(all) by ourselves
alone or without help from anyone else
獨自;沒有任何人幫助
We were all by ourselves in the restaurant . 飯館裡衹有我們自己。
Nobody wanted to come with us, so we went by ourselves. 沒有人想和我們同行,於是我們自己去了。
We couldn't do all the work by ourselves. 我們自己不可能乾所有的活。
(all) to ourselves
for our use only
自己獨自使用
The hotel was very quiet so we had the swimming pool all to ourselves . 酒店很清靜,所以我們獨自享用了遊泳池。
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