(all) by myself• I ate a wholegallon of icecreamby myself.• And I have done it by myself.• But I can't reach the windowby myself.• I was out driving around by myself.• All the instructors are carefully selectedby myself and they offer a very special service.• The next night, when I found it by myself, I bonded.• I go to the moviesby myself one autumn evening.• All 41 tests were witnessedby myself or other members of the Requalification group and results compared against identifiedcriteria.• Actually, I kind of wanted to be by myselftonight.
4not feel/be myselfUPSET informal used when the person speaking does not feel well, or is not able to behave normally, for example because he or she is upset or ill 感觉自己不舒服;感到自己状态不佳
I haven’t been feeling myself lately.
我近来一直感觉不舒服。
Sorry, I’m not myself today. I’ve had some bad news.
对不起,我今天心情不好。我听说了一些坏消息。
5have something (all) to myselfINDEPENDENT PERSONto not have to share something with anyone else 独自占有的,独用的
Everyone else had gone out and I had the apartment all to myself.
其他人都出去了,就我独自一人在公寓里。
Examples from the Corpus
have something (all) to myself• I had a whole lane in the swimming pool to myself.• I get home and I have no time to myself.• I have an office to myself.• I must have been jealous of her life away from me, and wished to have her entirely to myself.• I have been re-transformed to myself and this civilised gloom.• I have a duty to myself and to my reader to express what follows with truth and dignity.• The bedroom upstairs is all ready for my brother, and I'd prefer to have that floor to myself anyway.• I didn't have Mum to myself because all the others were around.• I have said to myself that that is wrong.