In an irritated voice, they said, "You've given us a machine that works only in English, so we had to teach ourselves English in order to use it."  That's the first time, as a teacher, that I had heard the word "teach ourselves" said so casually.
他们带着生气的口吻说： “你给了我们一台只能用英语动起来的电脑， 所以我们只能自己教自己英文才能用得了。” 那是我作为教师，头一次 听人如此随意地说“教自己”。