核心畫面
Point back at one single thing — an object, an animal, a whole group — and say: this very thing, and nothing else around it. Every use of 'itself' is that finger pointing at the one thing on its own.
可以想成一根手指回頭指著「那同一個東西本身」——一個物件、一隻動物、一整群人——而且只指它,不連到旁邊任何別的東西。…更多收起
可以想成一根手指回頭指著「那同一個東西本身」——一個物件、一隻動物、一整群人——而且只指它,不連到旁邊任何別的東西。itself 的每一種用法,核心畫面都比較像這根「指回它自己」的手指。原始詞典資料3 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。
itselfpron/ɪtˈsɛlf/
- 1
it; A thing as the object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject
- When the opportunity presented itself, no feasible course of action suggested itself (to us).
- The researchers posit that something they call the “hipster effect” asserts itself in human populations no matter how individualistic we imagine ourselves to be, because it’s individuality itself that sparks conformity.
- 2
it; used to intensify the subject, especially to emphasize that it is the only participant in the predicate
- The door itself is quite heavy.
- Beautie alone is a ſoveraigne remedy againſt feare,griefe,and all melancholy fits; a charm,as Peter de la Seine and many other writers affirme,a banquet it ſelfe;he gives inſtance in diſcontented Menelaus that was ſo often freed by Helenas faire face: and ʰTully, 3 Tusc. cites Epicurus as a chiefe patron of this Tenent.
- 3
archaicit; used to refer back to an earlier subject
- The oil by degrees gets covered with a curdy mass, which after some time settles to the bottom, while itself becomes limpid and colorless.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。