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self-reference

/self-ref-er-uhns, -ref-ruhns/US // ˈsɛlfˈrɛf ər əns, -ˈrɛf rəns //

自我介绍,自我参照,自我推荐,自指

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : reference made to oneself, to one's own character or experience, or to a group with which one identifies.
    • : Logic. the property of a statement that is a statement about itself, as “This statement is grammatical.”

Examples

  • We see detoxing as a path to transcendence, a symbol of modern urban virtue and self-transformation through abstinence.

  • In 2011 LGBT media outlet Queerty took the app to task for allegedly deleting accounts that made reference to being trans.

  • Stephanie Giorgio, a classical musician, credits The Class for helping her cope with anxiety, focus, fear, and self-doubt.

  • For someone with anorexia, self-starvation makes them feel better.

  • He then provides some insight into his psyche - complete with Animal House reference.

  • Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.

  • Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.

  • At present, Louis was too self-absorbed by the struggles within him, to look deep into what was passing around him.

  • But to wave this discourse of Heathens, how many self-contradicting principles are there held among Christians?

  • Jean grinned and dribbled self-consciously, and showed his two little teeth to the proudest father in the world.