ourselves
/aʊɚˈsɛlvz/ pronom A2En français : nous-mêmes, nous
- Us; the group including the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition when that group also is the subject. · We should keep this for ourselves.· Let's not beat ourselves up over this.
- Intensifies the subject as the group including the speaker, especially to indicate that no one else satisfies the predicate or needs to be included. · We did it ourselves.
- Referring to everyone being addressed. · Come on everyone! Let's get ourselves up and out of bed, please.· Now then children, I'm not going to help you with the next problem. We should be able to work this one out ourselves.
- Referring to an individual person being addressed, especially a person in the speaker's care; also ourself. · Coordinate term: nurse's we· Hello Mrs Miggins. Did we manage to wash ourselves this morning?
Dans la bibliothèque
I am aware he is a furious royalist; but, in spite of that, and of his being king’s attorney, he is a man like ourselves, and I fancy not a bad sort of one.”
Remember, also, Villefort, that we have pledged ourselves to his majesty for your fealty and strict loyalty, and that at our recommendation the king consented to forget the past, as I do” (and here she extended to him her hand)—“as I now do at your entreaty.
Not one of us is safe while this fierce creature is alive, and we had called a meeting to decide how to take care of ourselves when you came among us.”
“We must protect him ourselves if he is in danger,” replied the Tin Woodman.
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