英语词源
- themselves (pron.)
- mid-15c. in northern dialect, standard from 1540s, alteration of Middle English tham-self, emphatic plural pronoun, also reciprocal pronoun (14c.); see them + self, with self, originally an inflected adjective, treated as a noun with a meaning "person" and pluralized. Displacing Old English heom selfum (dative). Themself returned late 20c. as some writers took to replacing himself with gender-neutral everyone, anyone, etc.
权威例句
- 1. These large institutions make — and change—the rules to suit themselves.
- 这些大机构总是随意制定规定，而且说变就变。
- 2. People will work themselves up into a state about anything.
- 人们总会沉不住气，为任何事感到担忧。
- 3. In many respects Asian women see themselves as equal to their men.
- 在很多方面，亚洲女性都认为自己和丈夫是平等的。
- 4. The small British crowd roared themselves hoarse, waving their Union Jacks.
- 一小群英国人挥舞着国旗，吼得嗓子都沙哑了。
- 5. Those people who took up weapons to defend themselves are political prisoners.
- 那些拿起武器自卫的人是些政治犯。