在一个句子中, 主语和"宾语"指向同一个事物, 是否宾语要用反身代词 self, selves?
要视上下文而定, 或者说这个句子的含义而定, 不能一概而论.
例如:
The police were not guilty of the violence imputed to them.
警方并未犯过强加于他们头上的暴力行为。 (来源: 朗文高阶4版,impute词条)
这个句子中的them不能换成themselves.
An object may have two or more forces acting on it and, since these are vectors,
we must use vector additions to find their combined effect.
这个中it也不能用itself. 经典!!! (来源: 参A Level物理教材: 剑桥大学2版)