单词	itself
释义	itselfit‧self /ɪtˈself/ ●●● S1 W1 pronoun [reflexive form of ‘it’] Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES The bird was looking at itself in the mirror. The meeting itself was quite interesting. The tape player shuts itself off when it's done. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► communicated itself  His enthusiasm communicated itself to the voters. ► an end in itself (=the thing that you want to achieve)· The programme is not an end in itself, but rather the first step the prisoner takes towards a new life. ► plays itself out  It will be interesting to see how the election plays itself out. ► simplicity itself  James’ solution to this problem was simplicity itself (=very simple). ► a snake coils itself around something · The snake coiled itself around the branch. ► a storm blows itself out (=ends)· The storm finally blew itself out. Phrases PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► be patience/kindness/simplicity etc itself► in/of itself Clearly, this aspect of our account of habituation is not enough in itself to explain the latent inhibition effect. Golf is not privileged and much as it likes to think of itself as such, Augusta is not a cathedral. Modern-day sportswriting is full of itself. Most colleges have routinely sought to produce qualified student bodies whose mix is in itself an educational experience for those in it. That evidence was, primafacie, of itself sufficient to justify the decision of the magistrate that the applicant should be committed. The planning becomes an end in itself. The program creates a copy of itself and causes it to execute; no user intervention is required. This awareness, in itself, is believed to generate sufficient grief to restore and ensure cooperation. ► (all) by itself The door's not going to close by itself. Will the dog be safe left in the car by itself? About twice as many, for depression by itself. But then, I think the Nagumo Force can handle this operation all by itself. It's in there by itself. Let the fatuous sun shine by itself and let's head for the moon. Perhaps now he could see why the drawing was in a space by itself. The growth in members is meaningless all by itself. The threat of lawsuits by itself is a major factor in driving up health care costs. To begin with, by itself it doesn't produce anything. ► (all) to itself This idea deserves a chapter to itself. Even a predator as powerful as a tiger wants to avoid risk of damage to itself. His only strategy is to take small steps and to carry the local vector parallel to itself over each step. In the schools we have visited the curriculum does connect, both to kids and to itself. It should create a voice that is unique to itself. The family itself is a self-contained, almost private, institution - a world to itself. Under a 3600 rotation, a boson state-vector goes back to itself, not to its negative. Until the beginning of this year, Congress had not applied to itself a single civil-rights or workplace statute passed this century. Yggdrasil composed an exquisite sonnet that deserved to live for centuries, but kept it to itself. PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► assert itself Islam began to assert itself in the seventh century. Lying in clouds of scent in the sunken tub filled to the brim, that streak of equanimity she had asserted itself. Now, with the future assured, the comfortable past asserted itself unchanged. Our novelist's intellectual humour is asserting itself beneath the narrative. So by this means, the interest of ownership in the performance of the business owned can assert itself. The current wild weather through the West and Midwest again has raised the question: Is global warming finally asserting itself? The former character asserts itself, and some-times disagreeably, weaKly, disgracefully. The party will continue to assert itself and severely punish political dissent. This was the way in which uncertainty asserted itself in Heisenberg's original formulation of quantum mechanics. ► blow itself out Governments were paralysed, hoping the storm would blow itself out without affecting their friends and families and favourite projects. Next morning dawns bright and clear; the storm has blown itself out in the night. She could do nothing but batten down the conversational hatches and wait until the storm blew itself out. The morning of the third day, they woke up and saw the storm had blown itself out. The storm had blown itself out, leaving the sky pearly. The storm had blown itself out, there was only steady drizzle. They had waited for the Darkfall to blow itself out, which it did in spectacular fashion. This storm was not going to blow itself out in an hour - not even for him. ► commend itself (to somebody) This view did not commend itself to the pope. ► something expresses itself Sometimes public outrage expresses itself in extreme ways. ► history repeats itself As the scholar says, history repeats itself. ► lend itself to something It's time-proven, reliable and lends itself to tuning. One of the beauties of the discipline of neurology is how it lends itself to analysis of dysfunction involving these neural levels. Or does the environment lend itself to the air power and precision-guided missiles of a Steve Forbes? The latter type of fuel lends itself to underwater storage for several decades. The study did not seem to lend itself to a description of community service profiles. This is not, by its nature, the sort of theory that lends itself to easy confirmation. This process seems to have been handled badly, even if it is not one that lends itself to sensitive treatment. ► manifest itself A typically ambiguous attitude towards foreigners manifested itself at this point. Interest is now focused on how this might manifest itself in the government's promised rethink on constitutional reform. On the microscopic level, this problem manifests itself in abstractionism. That manifested itself in a lack of motivation and commitment in the work force. The uncertainty manifests itself above all in the volatile perceptions of the two candidates. This lack of real leadership manifested itself on many occasions. Yet this delayed-action disease manifested itself in widening circles and in larger numbers of people. ► offer itself If the prey obligingly offers itself as an immobilised piece of meat, what advantage does it gain? St William's Foundation here offers itself as latter-day deusexmachina. The world will offer itself to you to be unmasked; it can't do otherwise. ► pay for itself Installing solar film on the windows will pay for itself. At the St Pierre Park it is estimated that the oven system will have paid for itself inside 18 months. But I think I can say that each machine has paid for itself, one way or another. Fab 25 needs more strong high-volume chips to pay for itself. Growth needs to pay for itself. How long for his addition to pay for itself? Investment in an agency, branch or subsidiary will be expected to pay for itself by generating extra business. Life has a way of giving a comic a funny face which ultimately starts to pay for itself. Walkup's argument: Well-planned development can pay for itself, without the burden of impact fees and similar financing mechanisms. ► something presents itself After independence, the opportunity to stop slavery presented itself, but was not acted upon. ► reassert itself But it also allows the traditional power biology has within psychology to reassert itself within them. I wondered, naturally, how and when reality would reassert itself. It was clearly time for true Protestantism to reassert itself and win allegiances. It was only to be expected that sooner or later the Collector's sense of duty would reassert itself. There may be some recovery when they go to school, but the dip will reassert itself during the teenage years. ► resolve (itself) into something Given sufficient magnification, of course, all open clusters can be resolved into stars. In fact, particles and anti-particles resolve into massless energy, but that is far from being nothing. In practice the question therefore resolves itself into: Has there been enough time for enough successive generations? It seems to have finally resolved itself into an increased interest in practical deterrence and street-level prevention programmes. They can be resolved into various oscillations about the equilibrium structure. With binoculars, few of the globulars can be resolved into stars except at their extreme edges. ► seed itself Clean architectural lines, gleaming glass, flower beds so neat and regimented that no weed would dare to seed itself. ► sort itself out Childhood problems and anxieties have a habit of sorting themselves out. This situation is not going to sort itself out. We have to do something. At present, Ann led and Megan followed, but that would sort itself out in the long run. Expect more bobbing and weaving while this one sorts itself out. Inside the gulf of Pagasai, the disorganized Persian armament was sorting itself out and re-numbering. Instead, they would rely on decentralized, uncontrolled life to sort itself out and come to some self-enhancing harmony. Life has a funny way of sorting itself out. The seating problem more or less sorted itself out. The situation will sort itself out when the city reopens Navy Pier, the fair's preferred location. They hope that it will sort itself out with time - it is even more difficult to ask a second time. ► speak for itself/themselves He's a good coach - his success speaks for itself. Again, we begin by letting the managers speak for themselves. But the history of the family speaks for itself. I think the above account speaks for itself. Kahn believed that his work spoke for itself. The account mainly speaks for itself. The arrangement seemed to speak for itself: Alice, the true love. They simply put it out and let the music speak for itself. Yet the belief that a videotape somehow speaks for itself persisted. ► something suggests itself 1used to show that a thing, organization, animal, or baby that does something is affected by its own action:  The cat lay on the sofa, washing itself. The machine switches itself off when the process is complete. a small local enterprise that has transformed itself into a highly successful company2used to emphasize that you are talking about one particular thing, organization etc:  We’ve checked the wiring, so the problem may be the television itself.3in/of itself considered separately from any other facts:  There is a slight infection in the lung, which in itself is not serious.4(all) by itself a)alone:  Will the dog be safe left in the car by itself? b)without help or without a person making it work:  The door seemed to open all by itself.5(all) to itself not shared with other things:  This idea deserves a chapter to itself.6be patience/kindness/simplicity etc itself to be very patient, kind, simple etc:  Loading the software is simplicity itself.
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