instinct

释义

n.

本能；直觉；天性

adj.

充满的

网络

本能反应；生性；笑看风云

词形变化

复数：instincts

常用短语 8 组

by instinct

出于本能

instinct for

有…的天分；生来就

on instinct

本能，凭直觉

killer instinct

杀生本能

maternal instinct

n. 母性本能

animal instinct

动物本能；野兽直觉

basic instinct

本能

herd instinct

[心]群居本能，群体心理

在例句中理解 31 句

1. Art is innate in the artist, like an instinct that seizes and makes a tool out of a human being.

   艺术是（那个艺术家）内在的东西，就象是（那种领悟和制造人类原本不知的工具的）本能。

2. is a natural instinct of the human mind; when A sees B in distress, his conscience always urges him to entreat C to help him.

   善心是人的天赋本能。当某甲看到某乙陷于困境，他的良心总是促使他请求某丙去帮忙。

3. Still an entrepreneur by instinct, I continued to start or be involved in a number of other businesses while running my insurance business.

   出于企业家的本能，当我经营着自己的保险公司的时候，继续开创或者跟其他一些企业有紧密的联系。

4. Knowing what is the right move to make is often just a matter of gut instinct.

   知道什么是对的到执行经常只是本能直觉的事儿。

5. It's a good instinct, as you want to help, but maybe it's not the best thing.

   从直觉上看，你会觉得不错，因为你想干点实事，但也许它并不是解决问题的最佳方式。

6. After she had given birth to a baby, her maternal instinct caused her to fight with the couple for its custody.

   事成之后，代母的母性大发，与该对夫妇争夺女儿的抚养权。

7. Their first instinct was to turn. It was the worst decision they could have made.

   他们的本能反应是转向，而这也是最不利的决定。

8. The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.

   人的本能是追逐从他身边飞走

9. I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body.

   离开办公室之前我总统任期完成每本能是相悖的在我的身体里。

10. Not knowing who it was, I kicked him in the face just out of instinct.

    我也不知道是什么人，本能的用脚踹了他的脸。

11. He had the insight and the instinct to see this thing and to know in his heart immediately that this was going to be of profound importance.

    他具有敏锐的洞察力与直觉，一看到这具化石，就能立刻深知，这具化石将具有极为重大的意义。

12. Everyone wants to do better, The human walks toward the high place is not a state of mind, but an instinct.

    每个人都想做的更好，人往高处走不是一种心态，而是一种本能。

13. Instinct of womankind told Miss Forbes that this and no other was the type of man to work such a miracle.

    人类的本能告诉福布斯小姐说，这并没有别的——这个男士创造了奇迹。

14. She decided later it was base survival instinct that caused her to fling the seeds at the moist soil in the potato patch.

    后来，她断定是人的基本生存本能令她将种子扔进马铃薯地的湿润土壤里的。

15. And I, is also a passenger, but I to be utterly ignorant of instinct drive, think of her car should be safe, so I have to blame the emu.

    而我，同样是乘客，但我对驾驶一窍不通，本能想到的是自己乘车应该是安全的，所以才有对车组的责怪。

16. She bared her bosom and looked at her arms, so flawlessly modeled, and was instinct with an exquisite caress.

    她敞开胸怀，又注视着她那完美无缺地塑成的手臂，充满了说不出的怜爱。

17. Externally, your main consideration seems to be acquiring wealth and satisfying your pleasure-seeking instinct.

    你主要考虑的事情是获取财富和满足你享乐的本能。

18. The commission's instinct seems to be to take a fairly tough stance on intra-bank lending, but its precise views are hazy.

    委员会的本意是在银行间的借贷中扮演一种极其强硬的姿态，不过有关它们更确切的立场尚不清楚。

19. Such an inheritance could be called instinct, using the word in its original sense. But it is not quite so simple.

    如果用最原始的词语来描述，这种遗传被称为本能，但实际并不是那麽简单的。

20. The incentive to "go along" to "get along" is always present, in competition with a journalist's instinct to speak truth to power.

    通过“合作”来“搞好关系”的动机始终存在，与记者不畏权势仗义执言的本能进行着斗争。

21. Although we might tend to put this sort of skill down as basic "instinct, " it actually relies on higher activities of the brain.

    尽管我们会把这种能力当作基本的“本能”，它实际上依靠大脑更高层次上的活动。

22. Call it a premonition, an instinct, a feeling -- whatever you label it, it's your intuition talking.

    称之为预感也好，本能也好，感觉也好--无论你管它叫什么，那都是你的直觉在”讲话“。

23. It had been months since he had seen anything that could stir that deeply buried portion of his instinct that now cried out so dramatically.

    他已经有几个月没有看见任何可以激起他最深处本能的东西了，而现在这种本能如此强烈地爆发出来。

24. I think filling the gaping holes in our knowledge with made-up (and often wrong) information is some sort of a natural survival instinct.

    我认为用我们自己制造的（经常是错误的）的一些信息来弥补我们知识当中的漏洞是一种自然的求生本能。

25. As one character explains, the monsters seem to have been drawn there by instinct: the mall was clearly an important place in their lives.

    一个特写说明，这些僵尸似乎出于本能被吸引到这里：很明显，购物商城在他们的生活中意义非凡。

26. It was a creature of instinct, and its instinct told it that there was a meal to be had here.

    它这么做完全是出自本能，而它的本能告诉它这些是可以吃的食物。

27. He would be useful for the Italy squad and is always a danger in the area, as he has an instinct for goal, but that is up to the Coach.

    他是小组中的重要一员，因为他正点的射门，使他成为球场上，最具威慑力的人物，但这也要取决于教练。

28. But when she looks over and spots him, her first instinct is to assume he's an intruder, and she whacks him on the head with her vacuum.

    但是她转头看，发现了他，她直觉把他定为一个闯入家宅的人，她用她的真空吸尘器敲打他的脑袋。

29. Only it is no less evident that this fencing off, that this separation makes instinct impossible no matter how one conceives it.

    这同样是显而易见的，这个防护，这个分离使它不可能是本能，无论我们怎麽构想它。

30. A child's first instinct when something frightens him is to reach out for his mother's or father's hand.

    当感到害怕时，小孩子的第一个反应便是伸手紧握父母的手；

31. Her instinct told her that something was wrong.

    直觉告诉她有些不对劲。