You can think of themselves as a mirror turned back on a group: the people who do something are the very same people it lands on. From that one idea — the action bouncing back to its own — come all the other uses: pointing emphatically at exactly those people, standing for one unnamed person, and a handful of fixed phrases (by themselves, to themselves, in themselves, not feel themselves) that all keep that 'the group itself, on its own' feeling.
登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。
原始詞典資料2 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。
themselvespron/ðɛmˈsɛlvz/
- 1
The reflexive case of they, the third-person plural personal pronoun. The group of people, animals, or objects previously mentioned, as the object of a verb or following a preposition (also used for emphasis).
- They’ve hurt themselves.
- They fought among themselves.
- 2
The reflexive case of they, the third-person singular personal pronoun. The single person previously mentioned, as the object of a verb or following a preposition (also used for emphasis).
- Would whoever stole my phone please make themselves known.
- I don't want anyone to fight among themselves.
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