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People Plural Pron Refl 反身代词 Refer   [V Pron Object

英语单词 ourselves
英美音标 英 [ɑː'selvz] 美 [ɑːr'selvz]
中文释义 pron.我们自己
英语例句 (1) We have a bathroom to ourselves.
(2) No one can degrade us except ourselves.
中文例句 (1) 我们自己有一间浴室,不必和人共用。
(2) 除了我们自己,没有人能贬低我们。
柯林斯解释
Ourselves is the first person plural reflexive pronoun. ourselves 是第一人称复数反身代词。
1
[PRON-REFL 反身代词]我们自己 You use ourselves to refer to yourself and one or more other people as a group.
  [v PRON]
  • We sat round the fire to keep ourselves warm...

    我们围坐在火边取暖。

  • It was the first time we admitted to ourselves that we were tired.

    这是我们第一次承认自己累了。

2
[PRON-REFL 反身代词](泛指)我们自己,人们自己(当主语和宾语为同一群人时,用作动词或介词的宾语) 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.
  [v PRON]
  • We all know that when we exert ourselves our heart rate increases.

    我们都知道太卖命了会导致心跳加速。

3
[PRON-REFL-EMPH 强调反身代词](用于强调第一人称复数主语;在比较正式的英语中,有时代替 us 作动词或介词的宾语以示强调)我们自己,我们本人 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.
  [emphasis]
  • Others are feeling just the way we ourselves would feel in the same situation...

    别人此时的感受和我们自己在同样的情形下时没什么两样。

  • The people who will suffer won't be people like ourselves.

    受苦的不会是像我们这样的人。

4
[PRON-REFL-EMPH 强调反身代词]我们自己;我们亲自 If you say something such as 'We did it ourselves', you are indicating that something was done by you and a particular group of other people, rather than anyone else.
  • We villagers built that ourselves, we had no help from anyone.

    那是我们村民自己修建的,没有依靠任何人的帮助。

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