1680s, "aware of one's action," a word of the English Enlightenment (Locke was using it by 1690), from self- + conscious. Morbid sense of "preoccupied with one's own personality" is attested from 1834 (in J.S. Mill). Related: Self-consciously; self-consciousness.
双语例句
1. He has never exhibited the self-confidence, bordering on arrogance, of his predecessor.
他从未表现出他前任的那种近乎傲慢的自信。
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2. She has now changed into a happy, self-confident woman.
如今她已经变成一个快乐、自信的女人。
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3. He is being treated for a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
他因开枪自残受伤正在接受治疗。
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4. She summoned up all her pity for him, to smother her self-pity.
她抑制着心中的自怜，将满腔的怜悯之情都倾注在了他的身上。
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5. He won the election because the Democrats self-destructed in their primary.
