themselves

英[ðəmˈselvz]美[ðəmˈselvz]

pron.他[她，它]们自己，他们亲自，“himself”的复数，“herself”的复数；

词组

(not) be themselves

(all) by themselves

Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves.

speak for itself/themselves

the facts speak for themselves

英语四级真题

Prepare themselves for different job options.

Hotel owners found themselves with a huge number of empty rooms even as a lot of unnecessary new hotels were ready to open.

They're willing to do the hard work of identifying their valuable skills; be creative about where and how to look; learn how to present themselves to potential employers; and keep going, even after repeated rejections.

In many cases, screening can lead to surgeries to remove cancer, while the cancers themselves may be slow-growing and may not pose serious health problems in patients' remaining years

Otis Brawley said, "Many doctors are ordering screening tests purely to cover themselves.

They want to protect themselves against medical disputes

Many Apple users feel themselves to be part of a community, with Mr Jobs as its leader.

They don't identify themselves when using the website.

But Everybody Does It" Most people who get in trouble do know the rules and facts but manage to fool themselves about the risks they're taking by using excuses: "Everyone else does it

In mixed schools boys feel compelled to act like men before they understand themselves well enough to know what that means, " the study reported

Some people say relief…because they find themselves so relaxed.

They focus too much attention on themselves.

Along with improving the equipment, Chris began a program to train employees to use equipment better and do simple maintenance themselves.

He and his wife did everything by themselves.

To protect themselves against the cold weather

"The Greeks are always concerned about boxing themselves in, in terms of convictions (信念)," he says.

Among the reasons for the slower service: Today there are more choices on the menu, and the products themselves are more complex and take longer to prepare.

And Record and Austin are worried not just about the models themselves, but about the vast number of girls and women their images influence.

At the workplace, men use conflict as a way to position themselves, while women often avoid conflict or strive to be the peacemaker,because they don't want to be viewed as aggressive or disruptive at work.

But perhaps they don't have to turn themselves into private investigators or Congressional subcommittees.

From such instruction, many students began to see themselves as agents of their own brain development.

However, organisations need to learn something bigger than how to manage teams better: they need to be in the habit of asking themselves whether teams are the best tools for the job.

In contrast, the recent surge in world grain prices is trend-driven, making it unlikely to reverse without a reversal in the trends themselves.

Instead, topping the list of reasons, about four-in-ten Americans point to a double standard for women seeking to climb to the highest levels of either politics or business, where they have to do more than their male counterparts to prove themselves.

Married women diagnosed with a serious health condition may find themselves struggling with the impact of their disease while also experiencing the stress of divorce.

My mission is to encourage green hands and those lacking time or money to feed themselves.

The other surveys asked about times when subjects had themselves called someone close to them by the wrong name.

Their massive wake creates waves at the bottom of the sea, weakening the foundations of the centuries-old buildings themselves.

They tend to have a lot of experience themselves in the technology business.

Vocational-type classes, such as computer science or journalism, on the other hand, are often more research-oriented and lend themselves to take-home testing.

When they interact, they aren't afraid to smell each other and will express themselves clearly and honestly. Once again, it seems we have a lot to learn from dogs.

英语六级真题

"Many students are coming from a situation where no one around them has the experience of successfully completing higher education, so they are coming in questioning themselves and their college worthiness," Jarrat continued.

"Research has found that women negotiate higher salaries for others than they do for themselves," he says, adding that people slip in and out of decision roles.

"They underestimate themselves when selecting a university," said Dave Jarrat, a marketing executive for Inside Track, a for-profit organization that specializes in coaching low-income students and supporting colleges in order to help students thrive.

As she wrote in her description of the peacock flower," The Indians, who are not treated well by their Dutch masters, use the seeds to abort their children, so that they will not become slaves like themselves.

Because of their smaller size, most keep hours that allow people to enjoy themselves, then have some quiet after midnight, as opposed to large major cities like New York, where the buzz of activity is ongoing.

By making the effort to organize and label files so others can understand them, scientists become more organized and better disciplined themselves, thus avoiding confusion later on.

Common research has long held that talking themselves through a task helps children learn, although doing so when you'v apparently matured is not a great sign of brilliance.

Companies have also taken it upon themselves to contest each other's green claims.

For example, 25% of the working people interviewed described themselves as very happy at work.

For some, things work out fine, but others often find themselves stuck in a job they hate.

However, 20% of employees described themselves as being unhappy.

If you take a look at his biography, you can get a good idea of how his life experiences manifest themselves in his theories of beauty, specifically, the way he looked towards nature as the origin of what we find beautiful.

The technologies themselves, and their makers, are the easiest suspects to blame for our diminishing attention spans.

Initially, rather than appointing a general contractor to run the project, the corporation decided to manage it themselves.

Let's all stop judging people who talk to themselves.

Most animals protect themselves from the sun with fur.

One prevalent quality we have found in teens' statements about themselves, their friends and their families is a strikingly positive emotional tone.

Or we can allow students both to choose their majors and pay for their education themselves.

Other new products in the program have included a kind of full-body blow dryer and specially designed clothing that allows people with disabilities to dress and undress themselves.

Our research team has been looking at cultural differences in self-enhancing motivations, helping people have positive feelings towards not only themselves, but things connected to themselves.

Parents, teachers, even the kids themselves, scored the youngsters on measures like "acting before thinking" and "persistence in reaching goals".

People living in moderate poverty have the resources to keep themselves alive, but only at a very basic level.

Research has found that women negotiate higher salaries for others than they do for themselves, he says, adding that people slip in and out of decision roles.

Several years ago when my grandparents were well into their eighties, they were faced with the reality of no longer being able to adequately care for themselves.

So now, for many cases involving governmental intrusions into data, once-lonely privacy advocates find themselves fighting alongside the most powerful company in the world.

The big questions are which, if any, of the large traditional retailers will still be on the scene in a decade or two because they have successfully reinvented themselves, which new players will operate busy stores on Main Streets and maybe even in shoppi

The relatively poor live in high-income countries but they do not have a high income themselves.

The researchers explained that the study demonstrated when we are in a novel environment the brain partly remains alert so that humans can defend themselves against any potential danger.

Their desire for social drama is not—or not only—a way of distracting themselves from their school work or of driving adults crazy.

They cut it themselves into very thin slices with a long flat knife.

They may have a home to shelter themselves, but it does not have power supply, a telephone or plumbing.

Those who talked to themselves found the banana slightly faster than those who didn't, the researchers say.

We have everything to gain by encouraging them to explore the world beyond their immediate experience and to prepare themselves for their turn at shaping that world.

When considering the amount of insurance for the mother with dependent children, substitute child care is a need that should be planned for until the children can care for themselves.

When people imagine themselves as advisers and imagine their own choices as belonging to someone else, they feel less tired and rely less on decision shortcuts to make those choices.

While states could pass laws related to sharing information about children online, Steinberg feels parents themselves are generally best suited to make these decisions for their families.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

PRON-REFL

他们自己;她们自己;它们自己

You use themselves to refer to people, animals, or things when the object of a verb or preposition refers to the same people or things as the subject of the verb.

例句

PRON-REFL-EMPH

他们自己，她们自己，它们自己(强调所指的人或物，有时用作动词或介词宾语，代替 them)

You use themselves to emphasize the people or things that you are referring to. Themselves is also sometimes used instead of 'them' as the object of a verb or preposition.

例句

PRON-REFL

(用以代替himself or herself，指代句子的主语，而不指明是男是女;有人认为这种用法不对)

You use themselves instead of 'himself or herself' to refer back to the person who is the subject of sentence without saying whether it is a man or a woman. Some people think this use is incorrect.

例句

PRON-REFL-EMPH

(用以代替 himself or herself，强调所指代的人，但是不指明是男是女; themselves 有时也用作动词或介词的宾语;有人认为这种用法不对)

You use themselves instead of 'himself or herself' to emphasize the person you are referring to without saying whether it is a man or a woman. Themselves is also sometimes used as the object of a verb or preposition. Some people think this use is incorrect.

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英汉词典释义

pron.

他[她, 它]们自己