A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
本能
Instinct
If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
如果一只猫做了什么,我们称之为本能;如果我们出于同样的原因做同样的事情,我们称之为智慧。
If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
如果动物做了什么,我们称之为本能;如果我们出于同样的原因做同样的事情,我们称之为智慧。
With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women stars have a narcissist complex.
对于女性来说,有一种基本的女性本能,那就是深切关注自己的外表;女明星有一种自恋情结。
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
形而上学是为我们凭直觉所相信的东西寻找不好的理由;但找到这些原因同样是一种本能。
Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it.
当然,我们一直在行动;这是我们所有人与生俱来的本能。我们中的一些人比其他人更擅长,但我们都这样做。
Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
人的每一步行动都是理性的,然而他却走错了路,而由本能引导的更卑鄙的东西很少会误入歧途。
She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.
她有一种女性的本能,认为衣服对许多人的影响比性格的价值或风度的魅力更大。
In life, when stuff happens the instinct is to close off your heart. By leaving your heart open, it leaves room for someone else to come in.
在生活中,当事情发生时,你的本能是关闭你的心扉。敞开你的心扉,别人就会进来。
The entrepreneurial instinct is in you. You can't learn it, you can't buy it, you can't put it in a bottle. It's just there and it comes out.
你有创业的本能。你不能学,你不能买,你不能把它装在瓶子里。它就在那里,然后出来。
Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.
机器人抓不住生命。他们不能。他们没有任何依靠——没有灵魂,没有本能。草比它们更有生存的意志。
And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.
突然我意识到我不再有意识地开车了。我是凭一种本能驾驶它的,只是我在另一个维度上。
Low budgets force you to be more creative. Sometimes, with too much money, time and equipment, you can over-think. My way, you can use your gut instinct.
低预算迫使你更有创造力。有时候,有太多的钱、时间和设备,你会想太多。我的方法是,你可以利用你的直觉。
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沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct.
时尚是一种语言。有些人知道它,有些人学习它,有些人永远不会——就像本能一样。
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
在艺术和爱情中,本能就足够了。
Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason.
不能运用理智的人,应当利用本能。
My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions.
作为一名哲学家,我的直觉是,我们正在有效地接近一个多中心的世界,这意味着我们需要提出新的、传统的左翼的、令人不快的问题。
I don't think you can question your instinct; you should always trust it.
我认为你不能质疑你的直觉;你应该永远相信它。
A dragons first instinct is to protect and defend. Its not your fault.
龙的第一本能是保护和防御。这不是你的错。