首页英语词典selfself的意思

self

英 [self] 美[sɛlf]

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近义词soul being I individual psyche mind entity spirit human person ego the

n. 自己，自我；本质；私心
adj. 同一的
vt. 使自花授精；使近亲繁殖
vi. 自花授精
n. (Self)人名；(英)塞尔夫

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复数: selves;

中文词源

self 自己，自身，本人

来自古英语 self,自己，自身，来自 Proto-Germanic*selbaz,自己，来自 PIE*sel-bho,扩大形式于*swe,自身，反身代词根，词源同 swain,custom.

英英释意

1. your consciousness of your own identity

2. a person considered as a unique individual;: "one's own self"

英文词源

self: self: [OE] Self is a general Germanic word, closely related to German selbe, Dutch zelf, Swedish sjelv, and Danish selv. These all point back to a prehistoric Germanic *selba-. Where this came from is not known for certain, although it seems likely to be related in some way to various pronouns denoting ‘oneself’, such as German sich and French se. According to John Hacket in his Scrinia reserata 1693, the word selfish was coined in the early 1640s by the Presbyterians.
self (pron.): Old English self, seolf, sylf "one's own person, -self; own, same," from Proto-Germanic *selbaz (cognates: Old Norse sjalfr, Old Frisian self, Dutch zelf, Old High German selb, German selb, selbst, Gothic silba), Proto-Germanic *selbaz "self," from PIE *sel-bho-, suffixed form of root *s(w)e-, pronoun of the third person and reflexive (referring back to the subject of a sentence), also used in forms denoting the speaker's social group, "(we our-)selves" (see idiom).
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. [Alan Watts]
Its use in compounds to form reflexive pronouns grew out of independent use in Old English. As a noun from early 14c.

考试真题

Interestingly, their memories are highly self-centred: although they can remember autobiographical life events in extraordinary detail, they seem to be no better than average at recalling impersonal information, such as random ( ' , 任意选取的) lists of words.

His solution was to learn something from the rebels it was fighting: decentralising authority to self-organising teams.

Still, 60% of drivers would like to get some kind of self-driving feature, such as automatic braking or self-parking the next time they buy a new car.

One of Google’s self-driving cars crashed into a bus in California last month.

On February 14th, the self-driving car, travelling at 2 miles per hour, pulled out in front of a public bus going 15 miles per hour.

It is not the first time one of Google’s famed self-driving cars has been involved in a crash, but it may be the first time it has caused one.

Those who were more self-disciplined, for instance, were no more likely to live to be very old.

That damaging other people in your community and in your life, trashing relationships, results in a kind of self-inflicted ( ' , 自己招致的 ) spiritual wound.

Such personality characteristics as self-discipline have no effect on longevity.

More people who lived in cities and suburbs said they wanted to try driverless cars than those who lived in rural areasWhile there's reason to believe that interest in self-driving cars is going up across the board, a person's age will have little to do with how self-driving cars can become mainstream.

In a study last year, of all people surveyed, 48 percent said they wanted to ride in one, while 50 percent did notThe fact that attitudes toward self-driving cars appear to be so steady across generations suggests how transformative the shift to driverless cars could be.

As the world's food security falls to pieces, individual countries acting in their own self-interest are actually worsening the troubles of many.

Mistakes crack their self-confidence because they attribute errors to a lack of ability, which they feel powerless to change.

We want to be self-sufficient.

There's no need to go out and find people you hate, but you need to do some self-assessment to determine where you have become stale in your thinking.

In the so-called effective schools, children are taught self-control under a set of strict rules.

If you spend much time with educators and policy makers, you'll hear a lot of the following words: standards, results, skills, self-control, accountability, and so on.

I have visited some of the newer supposedly effective schools, where children shout slogans in order to learn self-control or must stand behind their desk when they can't sit still.

Dr.Carson was headed down a path of self-destruction until a critical moment in his youth.

Our ancestral selves miss the natural world and long for contact with non-human life.

They were the pioneers of gender equity, in their useful, adaptable clothing, which was both made for the masses and capable of self-expression.

The don’ts can be self-fulfilling because your mind response to pictures.

I've been looking at what self-proclaimed experts were saying about unemployment during the Great Depression; it was almost identical to what Very Serious People are saying now.

Now, a new study that began with about 1,000 children in New Zealand has tracked how a child’s low self-control can predict poor health, money troubles and even a criminal record in their adult years.

From a very early age, some children exhibit better self-control than others.

Some elite universities attach great importance to building up the first-generation student's self-confidence.

Social science can also teach politician, how to avoid our collective capacity for self-destructive behaviour.

Even if the question is ostensibly (表面上) about something outside the self (describe a fictional character or solve a problem of geopolitics), the essay invariably returns to the favorite topic: what is its impact on YOU?

Though humor is essentially social, how you use it says a lot about your sense of self.

The third type of feedback is disconfirmation, which occurs when others fail to respond to your notion of self by responding neutrally.

Even the self identified auditory learners, their preference didn't seem to matter.

That way, the researchers can see if the self identified verbal learners really learned better when the information was just spoken aloud, for example.

They were the pioneers of gender equity, in their useful, adaptable clothing, which was both made for the masses and capable of self expression.

A great American, James Madison, referred to: "the capacity of mankind for self-government."

A man was free if he was self-controlled.

A school boy or girl is unpunctual because he or she does not have the necessary human virtue of self-discipline.

A wise man can live without self-pity.

As their world expanded, she said, children compared themselves to others online in a way that was "hugely damaging in terms of their self-identity, in terms of their confidence, but also in terms of their ability to develop themselves".

Children as young as ten are becoming dependent on social media for their sense of self-worth, a major study warned.

Children's comparing themselves to others online may lead to lower self-identity and confidence.

Dark environments are more likely to encourage overeating, for people are often less self-conscious (难为情) when they're in poorly lit places – and so more likely to eat lots of food.

Every college discussion about community values, social climate and behavior should include recognition of the developmental importance of student autonomy and self-regulation, of the necessary tension between safety and self-discovery.

Freedom would stop Athens from self-dependence.

I have hundreds of printer paper, covered in self-written notes from your video.

If men insisted on being free from the burden of self-dependence and responsibility for the common good, they would cease to be free.

If the self-centred guest arrives late, the nine others at the table set for ten will have to wait.

Instead of walking a few blocks to pick up a child or the dry cleaning, they send the self-driving minibus.

It involves slow, steady breathing for self-control that helps people stay calm and attentive.

Rising above self and acting to help others.

Second, youth-sport programs have long been considered important to youth's psychosocial development, providing opportunities to learn important life skills such as cooperation, discipline, leadership, and self-control.

Self expression there are many ways to express thoughts and ideas –music, acting, drawing, building, photography.

She was highly self-critical and also found fault with her friends.

The author is cautious about self-government.

The California department of motor vehicles began giving permits in April for companies to test truly self-driving cars on public roads.

The first commercially available driverless cars will almost certainly be fielded by ride-hailing services, considering the cost of self-driving technology as well as liability and maintenance issues.

The forced wait requires some self-control.

The possibility of self-driving robot cars has often seemed like a futurist's dream, years away from materializing in the real world.

The state also cleared the way for companies to sell or rent out self-driving cars, and for companies to operate driverless taxi services.

To be punctual one has to have self-discipline, and the lack of it affects others.

What the people wanted was a government which would provide a comfortable life for them; and with this as the primary object, ideas of freedom and self-reliance and responsibility were neglected to the point of disappearing.

To sum up: a system of conservation based solely on economic self-interest is hopelessly lopsided It tends to ignore, and thus eventually to eliminate, many elements in the land community that lack commercial value, but that are essential to its healthy functioning.

With its theme that “Mind is the master weaver，” creating our inner character and outer circumstances， the book As a Man Thinking by James Allen is an in-depth exploration of the central idea of self-help writing.

Opportunities for misinterpretation, error, and self-deception abound.

There is no doubt that gardens evidence an impossible urge to create, express, fashion, and beautify and that self-expression is a basic human urge; yet when one looks at the photographs of the garden created by the homeless, it strikes one that , for all their diversity of styles, these gardens speak of various other fundamental urges, beyond that of decoration and creative expression.

Today, professors routinely treat the progressive interpretation of history and progressive public policy as the proper subject of study while portraying conservative or classical liberal ideas —such as free markets, self-reliance—as falling outside the boundaries of routine, and sometimes legitimate, intellectual investigation.

The new awards are an exercise in self-promotion for those behind them, say scientists.

Mental health is the seed that contains self-esteem - confidence in ourselves and an ability to trust in our common sense.

His analysis should therefore end any self-contentedness among those who may believe that the global position of English is so stable that the young generation of the United Kingdom do not need additional language capabilities.

And interest groups ranging from postal unions to greeting-card makers exert self-interested pressure on the USPS's ultimate overseer-Congress-insisting that whatever else happens to the Postal Service, aspects of the status quo they depend on get protected.

实用场景例句

You'll soon be feeling your old self again (= feeling well or happy again) .: 你很快就会恢复原样的。

He's not his usual happy self this morning.: 今天早上，他不像平素那乐呵呵的样子。

Only with a few people could she be her real self (= show what she was really like rather than what she pretended to be) .: 只有和几个人在一起时，她才能表现出真实的自我。

his private/professional self (= how he behaves at home/work): 他在家里 / 上班时的样子

Many people living in institutions have lost their sense of self (= the feeling that they are individual people) .: 许多生活在福利院里的人已经失去了个性意识。

the inner self (= a person's emotional and spiritual character): 内心的思想感情

a lack of confidence in the self: 缺乏自信

She didn't do it for any reason of self.: 她那样做决不是出于私心。

You didn't hurt your little self, did you?: 小家伙，你没伤着自己吧？

We look forward to seeing Mrs Brown and your good self this evening.: 我们期盼今晚能见到布朗夫人和您本人。

You're looking more like your usual self...: 你现在看上去较像你平时的样子了。

She was back to her old self again.: 她又恢复了老样子。

I want to explore and get in touch with my inner self...: 我想认真探寻、了解内心的自我。

The face is the true self visible to others.: 这副面孔是他人所能见到的自我真实的一面。

The draft tax text also leave leaves open the exact target for limiting temperature rise.: 草案对限制温度上升也罗列了实际目标.

He looked just like his old self.: 他看上去和他过去一模一样.

She has become a grotesque parody of her former elegant self.: 她成为了以前那个举止优雅的自己的怪诞模仿品.

He is not his usual self today.: 他今天态度有点异常.

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