Instinct
['ɪnstɪŋ(k)t] or ['ɪnstɪŋkt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) inborn pattern of behavior often responsive to specific stimuli; 'the spawning instinct in salmon'; 'altruistic instincts in social animals'.
(adj.) (followed by `with')deeply filled or permeated; 'imbued with the spirit of the Reformation'; 'words instinct with love'; 'it is replete with misery' .
錄入:威廉敏娜--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Urged or stimulated from within; naturally moved or impelled; imbued; animated; alive; quick; as, birds instinct with life.
(a.) Natural inward impulse; unconscious, involuntary, or unreasoning prompting to any mode of action, whether bodily, or mental, without a distinct apprehension of the end or object to be accomplished.
(a.) Specif., the natural, unreasoning, impulse by which an animal is guided to the performance of any action, without of improvement in the method.
(a.) A natural aptitude or knack; a predilection; as, an instinct for order; to be modest by instinct.
(v. t.) To impress, as an animating power, or instinct.
吉尔达整理
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Natural impulse.
埃文編輯
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Prompting, impulse, intuition, inclination
ANT:Reason, reasoning, abstraction, deliberation, experience, experiment,elaboration, judgment
手打:维吉尔
解釋/意思:
n. impulse: an involuntary prompting to action: intuition: the mental aspect of those actions which take rank between unconscious reflex activities and intelligent conduct: the natural impulse by which animals are guided apparently independent of reason or experience.—adj. (in-stingkt′) instigated or incited: moved: animated.—adj. Instinc′tive prompted by instinct: involuntary: acting according to or determined by natural impulse.—adv. Instinc′tively.—n. Instinctiv′ity (rare).
整理:尼古拉斯
例句/造句/用法:
- It's not an instinct, it's a habit of cowardliness. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Nothing in my powers or instinct placed me amongst this brave band. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- It is in the nature and instinct of some women. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- A look of terror came over the sweet smiling face, and she clung to George as by an instinct. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Is it the secret instinct of decaying nature, or the soul's impulsive throb, as immortality draws on? 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- The forewarning of my instinct was but fulfilled, when I discovered her, all cold and vigilant, perched like a white bird on the outside of the bed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- All this Caroline knew, partly by instinct, partly by observation. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- It must, however, be admitted that in many instances we cannot conjecture whether it was instinct or structure which first varied. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Even when a person is frightened by threats into doing something, the threats work only because the person has an instinct of fear. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- What shall we say to the instinct which leads the bee to make cells, and which has practically anticipated the discoveries of profound mathematicians? 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- This faculty, or instinct, was now rouzed. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The nomadic instinct can not be educated out of an Indian at all. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Nothing could be more agreeable than his frank and courteous bearing, or adapted with a more gentlemanly instinct to the circumstances of his visit. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- In this extremity his instinct led him to Gudrun. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Her woman's instinct had told her that it was George who had interrupted the success of her first love-passage, and she esteemed him accordingly. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- He knew he should have to go slowly, and the instincts of his race fitted him to suffer rebuffs and put up with delays. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Gerty's compassionate instincts, responding to the swift call of habit, swept aside all her reluctances. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- What is it but the worst and last form of intellectualism, this love of yours for passion and the animal instincts? 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Doesn't it destroy all our spontaneity, all our instincts? 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- She constantly evinced these nice perceptions and delicate instincts. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- We can thus understand why nature moves by graduated steps in endowing different animals of the same class with their several instincts. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Thirdly, can instincts be acquired and modified through natural selection? 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The idea of property arises out of the combative instincts of the species. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In managing the wild instincts of the scarce manageable _bête fauve_ my powers would revel. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- All my medical instincts rose up against that laugh. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- If left to himself his instincts would have been either to return to King's Pyland or go over to Mapleton. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- No donkeys ever existed that were as hard to navigate as these, I think, or that had so many vile, exasperating instincts. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- You know what woman's instincts are. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- He had succeeded in stealing the government of his country, and made a change in its form against the wishes and instincts of his people. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Ants, however, work by inherited instincts and by inherited organs or tools, while man works by acquired knowledge and manufactured instruments. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
校對:菲利斯