動作彎回我們自己
最核心的角色：動作從「我們」出發，又落回「我們」身上。
ourselves (object) · pronoun · A2
A word the speaker uses for 'we' as the object, when 'we' do something that affects us.
我們自己
核心畫面
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.
可以把 ourselves 想成一面鏡子：當「我們」做了一件事，而這件事又彎回來落在同一群「我們」身上時，就用這個字…更多收起
可以把 ourselves 想成一面鏡子：當「我們」做了一件事，而這件事又彎回來落在同一群「我們」身上時，就用這個字把動作指回我們自己，而不是指向別人。它的各種用法，都是這個「指回我們自己」畫面的變化。Three branches
加強語氣：親自
同一個「我們自己」的字，這裡不是當受詞，而是貼在 we/us 旁邊加重語氣，強調是我們、不是別人。
ourselves (emphatic) · pronoun · A2
A word added to stress 'we' or 'us', often meaning we did it and nobody else.
我們親自；我們自己
固定片語：by / to ourselves
幾個把「我們自己」鎖進固定說法裡的用法：強調沒有別人在場、沒有別人幫忙、或東西只歸我們。
by ourselves (alone) · pronoun · A2
In the phrase 'by ourselves', meaning we are alone, with no one else there.
我們自己（獨自）
原始詞典資料4 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。
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?
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。