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本能
Instinct
I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.
我认为，在几乎所有的人身上，都埋藏着一种深刻的部落本能，这种本能使我们很容易被激起爱国热情。
The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror.
丑对人很有吸引力。这是本能。一个人从丑陋中退缩，却又想去看它。这里面有一种恶魔般的魔力。我们从恐怖中获得快乐。
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。
Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.
我们的文明仍处于中间阶段，几乎可以说是禽兽，因为它不再完全受本能的支配;几乎没有人性，因为它还没有完全被理性所引导。
How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.
你怎么能不害怕呢?恐惧是人类的本能，就像饥饿一样。不管你喜不喜欢，你都会感到饥饿。同样的恐惧。但我已经学会训练自己带着这种恐惧生活。
Young as he was, his instinct told him that the best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way - who husbands it too carefully to waste it where it can be dispensed with.
尽管他还年轻，但他的直觉告诉他，最好的说谎者是那些把最小的谎话说得最多的人——那些非常小心地把谎话花在可以扔掉的地方的人。
When you want something so bad and when something great happens, I think it's instinct that you say, 'This is gonna be the moment that's gonna change everything. Everybody is gonna see me a different way.'
当你非常想要某样东西，当某件好事发生时，我想你会本能地说，‘这将是改变一切的时刻。每个人都会以不同的方式看待我。”
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
告诉我们要服从本能就像告诉我们要服从人一样。人们会说不同的话，直觉也是如此。我们的本能处于战争状态…每一种本能，如果你听从它，都会声称以牺牲其他本能为代价而得到满足。
The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.
模仿的本能产生了演员;通过模仿获得快乐的欲望造就了剧作家;为了给这种乐趣提供足够的人物塑造和令人难忘的对话，产生了戏剧文学。
We all have a natural instinct to protect children from harm. It's never fun to see a child hurt, even if it's just a scraped knee. But on the other hand, children need to take on physical challenges to learn and grow, and scraped knees and other bumps and bruises teach them valuable lessons about their own limits.
我们都有保护儿童免受伤害的自然本能。看到孩子受伤从来都不是一件有趣的事，即使只是擦伤了膝盖。但另一方面，孩子们需要接受身体上的挑战来学习和成长，擦伤膝盖和其他磕碰和瘀伤教会了他们关于自身极限的宝贵经验。
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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。
There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct.
所有动物都有一种责任感，人类屈尊称之为本能。
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。
All the learning in the world cannot replace instinct.
世界上所有的学问都不能取代本能。
A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.
一个优秀的短篇小说作家有一种本能，就是在足够的背景下勾勒出一个特定的故事。
I'm not an outdoors person by instinct or nature. I'm more of a city person.
我天生不喜欢户外活动。我更像是一个城市人。