Itself

(pron.) The neuter reciprocal pronoun of It; as, the thing is good in itself; it stands by itself.

整理:莱昂内尔

• Captain Lydgate's stupidity was delicately scented, carried itself with style, talked with a good accent, and was closely related to Sir Godwin. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• It is sufficient if every thing be compleat in the object itself. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• To her, the handwriting itself, independent of anything it may convey, is a blessedness. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• I have called this misplaced rationality a piece of learned folly, because it shows itself most dangerously among those thinkers about politics who are divorced from action. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• She had discovered something, something more than wonderful, more wonderful than life itself. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The power of admonition which had begun to stir in Mrs. Garth had not yet discharged itself. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• On the edge of her consciousness the question was asking itself, automatically: 'Why ARE you behaving in this IMPOSSIBLE and ridiculous fashion. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Chemistry plays a part in every phase of life; in the arts, the industries, the household, and in the body itself, where digestion, excretion, etc. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• I opened the door; and at first looked down, to my amazement, on nothing but a great umbrella that appeared to be walking about of itself. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Westminster Hall itself is a shady solitude where nightingales might sing, and a tenderer class of suitors than is usually found there, walk. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Life, through mankind, grew thereafter more and more distinctly conscious of itself and its world. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But, she had scarcely thought more of separating them into units, than of separating the sea itself into its component drops. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• The marriage is no misfortune in itself, she retorted with some little petulance. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• In either case the distance through which the prongs move is very small and the period is very short, so that the eye can seldom detect the movement itself. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• This happens whenever information about the world is made an end in itself. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• It was as if the eager current of her being had been checked by a sudden obstacle which drove it back upon itself. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• But even thus early the stronger love of mechanical processes and of probing natural forces manifested itself. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• To be sure, language itself may be regarded as image ry. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Whenever I fell into a thoughtful state, this subject was sure to present itself, and all my uneasiness was sure to be redoubled. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Bare logic, however important in arranging and criticizing existing subject matter, cannot spin new subject matter out of itself. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• They are anticipations of some continuity or connection of an activity and a consequence which has not as yet shown itself. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Some fanatics among them, to be sure, held that one book, the Koran, was of itself sufficient to insure the well-being of the whole human race, but happily a more enlightened view prevailed. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The two pointed pieces of hard conducting carbon used for the separated terminals constitute the voltaic arc light--a light only excelled in intense brilliancy by the sun itself. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• These two years, said he, will pass swiftly, and it will be the last delay that will oppose itself to your happiness. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• If the sea ever gives up its dead, as books say it will, it will keep its gold and silver to itself, and that trash among it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• The case, however, is different when an animal, during any part of its embryonic career, is active, and has to provide for itself. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• He had determined to wait till the chance presented itself naturally; and here it was, and here he was on the doorstep. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• I am so much attached to you that I may confide in you, my dear, as a third party wholly disinterested, that he is fickleness itself. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Reduced to its barest, crudest terms, the proposition of magnetic separation is simplicity itself. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Presently, the chateau began to make itself strangely visible by some light of its own, as though it were growing luminous. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.

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