You can think of 'ourselves' as a mirror word: when 'we' do something and the action bends back onto the same 'we', this is the word that points the action home to us rather than out to other people.
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原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
ourselvespron/aʊəˈsɛlvz/
- 1
Us; the group including the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition when that group also is the subject.
- We should keep this for ourselves.
- Let's not beat ourselves up over this.
- 2
Intensifies the subject as the group including the speaker, especially to indicate that no one else satisfies the predicate or needs to be included.
- We did it ourselves.
- 3
Referring to everyone being addressed.
- Come on everyone! Let's get ourselves up and out of bed, please.
- Now then children, I'm not going to help you with the next problem. We should be able to work this one out ourselves.
- 4
Referring to an individual person being addressed, especially a person in the speaker's care; also ourself.
- Coordinate term: nurse's we
- Hello Mrs Miggins. Did we manage to wash ourselves this morning?
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。