ourselves

1. PRON-REFL You use ourselves to refer to yourself and one or more other people as a group. 我們自己[v PRON, prep PRON]

We sat around the fire to keep ourselves warm. 我們圍火而坐取煖。

2. PRON-REFL A speaker or writer sometimes uses ourselves to refer to people in general. Ourselves is used as the object of a verb or preposition when the subject refers to the same people. (泛指) 我們自己[v PRON, prep PRON]

We all know that when we exert ourselves our heart rate increases. 大家都知道，儅我們竭盡全力時，心率會加速。

3. PRON-REFL-EMPH You use ourselves to emphasize a first person plural subject. In more formal English, ourselves is sometimes used instead of "us" as the object of a verb or preposition, for emphasis. (正式英語中，替代)(us)(作動詞或介詞賓語，用以強(qiáng)調(diào)) 我們自己[強(qiáng)調(diào)]

Others are feeling just the way we ourselves would feel in the same situation. 他人現(xiàn)在所感受的，我們自己在相同的情況下也會同樣感受到。

4. PRON-REFL-EMPH If you say something such as "We did it ourselves," you are indicating that the people you are referring to did it, rather than anyone else. 我們親自

We villagers built that ourselves, we had no help from anyone. 那是我們這些村民自己脩建的，沒有用任何人幫忙。