To the best of my understanding, and bad's the best, you'll tell me,' said Miss Pross, softened by the tone of the apology, `he is afraid of the whole subject. `Afraid?'
`It's plain enough, I should think, why he may be. It's a dreadful remembrance. Besides that, his loss of himself grew out of it. Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he re-covered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again. That alone wouldn't make the subject pleasant, I should think.'
It was a profounder remark than Mr. Lorry had looked for. `True,' said he, `and fearful to reflect upon.英文原著 · 《A TALE OF TWO CITIES》
Let a man see himself at least as others see him; and then he will be led on from that to see himself as God sees him; and then he will judge himself so severely as that he shall not need to be judged at the Judgment Day, and will condemn himself so sufficiently as that he shall not be condemned with a condemned world at the last.英文原著 · 《Bunyan Characters-3》
When Dorothy came, Norman went into the garden with her in a frame of mind so different from any he had ever before experienced that he scarcely recognized himself. As the influence of the father's glowing imagination of genius waned before the daughter's physical loveliness and enchantment for him, he said to himself, "I'll keep away from him." Why? He did not permit himself to go on to examine into his reasons. But he could not conceal them from himself quickly enough to hide the knowledge that they were moral.英文原著 · 《The Dust》
He misunderstood the gentleness of her voice. ``She loves me still!'' he said to himself. ``We shall die together and our names will echo down the ages.'' He looked burningly at her and said: ``I was mad--mad with love for you. And when I realized that I had lost you, I went down, down, down. What have I not suffered for your sake, Hilda!'' As he talked he convinced himself, pictured himself to himself as having been drawn on by a passion such as had ruined many others of the great of earth.英文原著 · 《The Fortune Hunter》
Thenceforth he no longer vexed himself by trying to forget Mescal; if she came to mind he told himself the truth, that the weeks and months had only added to his love. And though it was bitter-sweet there was relief in speaking the truth to himself. He no longer blinded himself by hoping, striving to have generous feelings toward Snap Naab; he called the inward fire by its real name--jealousy--and knew that in the end it would become hatred.英文原著 · 《The Heritage of the Desert》
"Jack has hanged himself!" quoth they; "let us go and see how the poor rogue swings." Then they called Sir Roger. "Sir Roger," quoth Habakkuk, "Jack has hanged himself; make haste and cut him down." Sir Roger turned first one ear and then the other, not understanding what he said. HAB.--I tell you Jack has hanged himself up. SIR ROGER.--Who's hanged? HAB.--Jack. SIR ROGER.--I thought this had not been hanging day. HAB.--But the poor fellow has hanged himself. SIR ROGER.--Then let him hang.英文原著 · 《The History of John Bull》
Well, he keeps himself to himself, and he's very hard to read at times,美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》
"The hermit, withdrawn to himself, "avoiding the settlements, "sings by himself a song." - Do you know the poem? - No, I don't.美剧 · 《House of Cards》
In my experience, a young guy like this, about to win a couple of million bucks, either finding himself in God or losing himself in a woman.美剧 · 《Lie to me》
A dying man can't be expected to wean himself off booze by himself.美剧 · 《Shameless》
In the sense that a lot of it is driven by the learner himself or herself. in the sense that a lot of it is driven by the learner himself or herself.演讲 · 《One Laptop per Child ~ Nicholas Negroponte》