核心畫面

You can think of himself as a small mirror placed in the sentence so an action bends back onto the same man who did it: he does something, and the arrow loops around to land on himself. All the other uses are this same loop, just leaning a little harder on it for emphasis, aloneness, or owning something by oneself.

himself 可以想成句子裡擺了一面小鏡子,讓一個動作彎回到做這件事的同一個男人身上:他做了某件事,那支箭繞了一圈更多收起himself 可以想成句子裡擺了一面小鏡子,讓一個動作彎回到做這件事的同一個男人身上:他做了某件事,那支箭繞了一圈又落回他自己。其他用法都是同一個「繞回自己」的圈,只是有時把它壓得更重——用來強調、用來表示「獨自」,或表示「自己一個人擁有」。

Four branches

動作彎回自己

這是核心:做事的人和被影響的人是同一個男人,箭頭繞回原點。

reflexive: himself · pronoun · A2

Used to show that the man or boy who does an action is also affected by that same action.

他自己

強調就是他本人

把鏡子的力道從「繞回自己」轉成「指著本人」:不是別人,正是這個他。

emphatic: he himself · pronoun · A2

Used to emphasize that you mean one particular man or boy, and no one else.

他本人

靠他自己一個人

把「繞回自己」延伸成「只有他一個」:沒有別人摻進來,所以是獨自、是靠自己。

by himself (alone) · pronoun · A2

Alone, with no one else there. Used in the phrase 'by himself'.

獨自

不像平常的自己

這一組把 himself 當成「他平常的那個自己」這個基準,再說他偏離了它,或獨占了某樣東西——都還是繞回他這個人。

not be himself · pronoun · A2

In 'not be/feel/seem himself': if a man or boy is not himself, he does not feel or act the way he usually does, often because he is upset or unwell.

不像平常的他

原始詞典資料5 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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。

himselfpron/hɪmˈsɛlf/

  • 1

    Him; the male object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject

    • He injured himself.
    • Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.
  • 2

    He; used as an intensifier, often to emphasize that the referent is the exclusive participant in the predicate

    • He was injured himself.
    • Therefore the Lord himſelfe ſhal giue you a ſigne:[…].
  • 3

    The subject or non-reflexive object of a predicate; he himself.

    • Yet it is that himselfe had been liberally gratified by his Unkle with militarie rewards, before ever he went to warres.
    • With shame remembers, while himself was one / Of the same herd, himself the same had done.
  • 4

    The subject or non-reflexive object of a predicate; he (used of upper-class gentlemen, or sarcastically, of men who imagine themselves to be more important than others)

    • Has himself come down to breakfast yet?
    • Have you seen himself yet this morning?

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。