0 the set of someone's characteristics, such as personality and ability, that are not physical and make that person different from other people -- 本性;自己;自我
2 of or by yourself or itself -- 自己的;自身的
self-educated 自学的
a self-winding watch 自动上发条的手表
The Minister was her usual evasive self, skilfully dodging reporters' questions about her possible resignation.
It was a long time after the accident before he seemed like his former self.
Our inner selves are always barricaded behind codes of language.
Every item in the world, from stars to selves, is simply part of a divine mind, the thinking of which constitutes all of reality.
Narratives are seen, then, both as rhetorical ploys (disguising genuine selves) and as the very thing that guarantees our ability to have selves.