instinct
美 [ˈɪnstɪŋkt] 
英 ['ɪnstɪŋkt]
- 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 反义词
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英汉双解
1. | ~ (for sth/for doing sth).~ (to do sth) 本能；天性a natural tendency for people and animals to behave in a particular way using the knowledge and abilities that they were born with rather than thought or training |
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| Children do not know by instinct the difference between right and wrong. 儿童并非生来就会分辨是非。 |
| His first instinct was to run away. 他的本能反应就是逃跑。 |
| Horses have a well-developed instinct for fear. 马天性易受惊吓。 |
| Even at school, he showed he had an instinct for(= was naturally good at) business. 他早在求学时期就表现出经商的天赋。 |
2. | ~ (that…) 直觉a feeling that makes you do sth or believe that sth is true, even though it is not based on facts or reason |
| Her instincts had been right. 她当时的直觉是对的。 |
英汉解释
英英解释
例句
Used for a purpose, the imitative instinct may, like any other instinct, become a factor in the development of effective action.
模仿的本能，如果为了一个目的加以运用，也许能和任何其他本能一样，成为发展有效的行动的一个因素。
The original "Basic Instinct" was no great film and is still something of a "smut classic" but it was entertaining.
早年的《本能》，算不上是什么伟大的影片，但依然不失为一部“情色经典”（smutclassic），而且有娱乐性。
Had a dying instinct told him his motherless offspring would be safe here, as he had been, with those who loved him?
是否临终前的本能告诉他没有母亲的孩子在这里会很安全，就像他当初一样，有那些爱他的人们呢？
It was instinct that helped F. D. R. find his way through a political labyrinth that was navigable by neither intellect nor principle alone.
是直觉让罗斯福在这个仅靠智慧或原则都不能通过的政治迷宫中找到了方向。
Heretofore we had been digging in the dark, with nothing but instinct to guide us.
到目前为止我们一直在黑暗中发掘，单凭直觉引导我们。
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；
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。
Some people seem to have an instinct for knowing where a good bargain is to be found.
有些人似乎生来就知道哪儿有好买卖可做。
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。
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。
Still, he did not pass in front of it any more, in obedience to the instinct of timidity and to the instinct of prudence common to lovers.
但是他仍同时服从情人们那种怯弱和谨慎的本能，不再往前移动。
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。
The ideals of philanthropy and giving back in many forms to those in need are the spirit of the human instinct to help others.
怀抱慈善事业的理想和以多种形式帮助有需要的人是人类相互帮助的人性本能。
When a rational woman wakes up to find a man practically on top of her, their first instinct would be to reach for the mace.
一名理性的妇女如果醒来时发现有个男人几乎骑在她身上时，她的第一本能反应应该是伸手去找防身的狼牙棒。
At this time the young man was really scared, his instinct of living made him use all his strength lifting Socrates and climbed to the bank.
这下子，年轻人真的慌了，求生的本能令他拼尽全力将苏格拉底掀开，爬到岸上。
He said that sleep was not a passive response to lack of stimulation but an active process, rather like an instinct.
他说睡眠并非由于缺乏刺激而做出的消极反应而更像是一种本能的积极反应。
If you think something isn't right for your child, act on your instinct.
如果你觉得孩子一些事或行为不妥，甚至有问题，那么你就该凭直觉行动。
Your dog will want to do as you say - and he'll hear every word you utter but his instinct will not allow him to obey you.
狗儿其实愿意服从命令，他也听得到你说的每一个字，但他的本能不让他听你的。
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。
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。
At this disenchanted moment a little lame duck of her own breed was welcome to June, so homeopathic by instinct.
在这样一个幻想破灭时刻，一个至亲骨肉的可怜虫对琼说来是受欢迎的，从本能上觉得这是很好的顺势疗法。
Charles II himself was a reasonable and unrevengeful man with a sound instinct against making famous martyrs.
查理二世本人是通情达理的，没有报复之心，具有反对杀害知名人物的健全天性。
The instinct that goaded him to flight never was dumb.
那种催他逃命的本能也一直没个安宁。
Cruelty and the fighting instinct have not yet been bred out of the human species.
残忍和好斗的天性并未从人类消除。
Men are still led by instinct before they are regulated by knowledge.
人类在受知识指导以前是受本能控制的。
It's an instinct of the English democracy.
这就是英国民主的实质。
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。
It is a sound instinct of the common people which persuades them that with this all that needs to be said is said.
对平常人而言，他们总有一种顽固的直觉劝导自己去说那些需要说的东西。
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
With just a couple of simple steps and a little bit of practice, you can rediscover that age old instinct.
通过两个简单的步骤和一些练习，你就可以重新找回那远古时代的直觉。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
But disreputable, illiterate and ignorant though he was, Fegelein seems to have been possessed of a simon-pure instinct FOR survival.
菲格莱因虽然声名狼藉，愚昧无知，但似乎仍具有贪图活命的单纯本能。
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。
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。
He had never been hunted by a bloodhound nor had he ever seen that brute's unerring instinct baffled by human cunning.
他从来没有被一只猎狗追逐过，也从没见过人的机灵战胜过那种动物的万无一失的本能。
As if by instinct you slice up at his approaching fist and cut through his hand as if it were water.
你凭著直觉，切豆腐似的将迫近的巨拳从他手上横切而过。
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。
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。
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“。
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。
Julia lifted her forearms out of instinct, shut her eyes, and waited for the swift delivery of his decades'-old promise.
朱莉娅本能地举起小臂捂上眼睛，等待他迅速实施二十多年前就威胁要做的事情。
