themselvesの意味・使い方・発音

themselves

英 [ð(ə)m'selvz] 美 [ðɛm'sɛlvz]

themselves (pron.): mid-15c. in northern dialect, standard from 1540s, alteration of Middle English tham-self, emphatic plural pronoun, also reciprocal pronoun (14c.); see them + self, with self, originally an inflected adjective, treated as a noun with a meaning "person" and pluralized. Displacing Old English heom selfum (dative). Themself returned late 20c. as some writers took to replacing himself with gender-neutral everyone, anyone, etc.

1. These large institutions make-and change-the rules to suit themselves .: これらの大機構はいつも勝手に規定を制定し、しかも変化すると言っている。

2.People will work themselves up into a state about anything.: 人はどうしても落ち着かず、何かを心配している。

3.In many respects Asian women see themselves as equal to their men.: 多くの点で、アジアの女性は自分と夫は平等だと思っている。

4.The small British crowd roared themselves hoarse,waving their Union Jacks.: イギリス人の小さなグループが国旗を振って、声がかすれてしまった。

5.Those people who took up weapons to defend themselves are political prisoners.: 武器を手にして自衛する人たちは政治犯だ。