| 单词 | instinct |
| 释义 | instinct (ɪnstɪŋkt ) Word forms: instincts 1. variable noun Instinct is the natural tendency that a person or animal has to behave or react in a particular way. I didn't have as strong a maternal instinct as some other mothers. The basis for training relies on the dog's natural instinct to hunt and retrieve. He always knew what time it was, as if by instinct. Synonyms: natural inclination, feeling, urge, talent 2. countable noun [also N to-inf] If you have an instinct for something, you are naturally good at it or able to do it. Farmers are increasingly losing touch with their instinct for managing the land. [+ for] Irene is so incredibly musical and has a natural instinct to perform. Synonyms: talent, skill, gift, capacity 3. variable noun [usually with poss, oft NOUN to-infinitive] If it is your instinct to do something, you feel that it is right to do it. I should've gone with my first instinct, which was not to do the interview. Synonyms: intuition, feeling, impulse, gut feeling [informal] 4. variable noun [oft NOUN that] Instinct is a feeling that you have that something is the case, rather than an opinion or idea based on facts. There is scientific evidence to support our instinct that being surrounded by plants is good for health. He seems so honest and genuine and my every instinct says he's not. Collocations: animal instinct Or are we just being led by our animal instincts? Times, Sunday Times (2008) Animal instincts kick in and we crave real food: Porridge, eggs, bacon. The Sun (2011) When you're a young manager your animal instinct is strong but your knowledge is small. The Sun (2008) He regards the 19 year old as one of the most exciting young players in Europe and will give his natural attacking instincts free rein. The Sun (2010) He's able to get through those tough periods that any batsman faces in an innings but has an attacking instinct, too. Times, Sunday Times (2015) Could such an injury force him to adapt his game and hone his attacking instincts? Times, Sunday Times (2010) Civilisation tames base instinct and turns it into impartial law. Times, Sunday Times They only follow their base instinct and feed on small animals. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 His work required exertion and austerity, to show the new man triumphing over his base instincts. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A public university has a role to educate the public as much as its students and not highlight modern society's base instincts, he was quoted as saying. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They seem to be saying, that even when we begin with honourable intentions, there will be some of us who will let their base instincts take control. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Maybe I'm losing my competitive instinct to win. Times, Sunday Times (2006) In your forties, your competitive instincts transfer on to your children. Times, Sunday Times (2007) He is a man of scrupulous rationality who likes to examine numbers and data, but he has a deeply competitive instinct. Times, Sunday Times (2015) Conservative instincts are the only dependable ones for this most dangerous moment in our economic history. Times, Sunday Times High-profile speeches on the country's pitifully poor record on female education helped to protect her father from claims that he shares the conservative instincts of some of his supporters. Times, Sunday Times Yet he was careful to preserve what was essential and, so far as possible, to avoid affronting the conservative instincts of readers. Times, Sunday Times They brought energy, charm and immense professionalism to a performance which stayed true at all times to their essentially conservative instincts. Times, Sunday Times It is easy to admire success, but human instinct sometimes swaps admiration for envy. Times, Sunday Times (2007) The most natural human instinct in the face of peril is to fly. Times, Sunday Times (2007) Far better and safer to trust to human instinct. The Sun (2012) Running away from a bear provokes its hunting instinct. Times, Sunday Times (2009) They are trained to follow their natural hunting instincts. Times, Sunday Times (2010) The idea of a cat without a hunting instinct is not as odd as it might initially appear. Times, Sunday Times (2016) His initial instinct was to give up, there and then. Times, Sunday Times When she woke in the hospital and discovered that she had lost her foot, her initial instinct was anger. Times, Sunday Times Consequently, your initial instinct will be to reject them. Times, Sunday Times He remembers an elderly nurse waving under his nose what he presumed were smelling salts and his initial instinct to push her away. Times, Sunday Times Our initial instincts were: we have these big banks who have been rescued by the state, why on earth don't they do it? Times, Sunday Times The enemy was marching on the capital, and the instinctive craving for art had to yield to the brute instinct of self-preservation. The Times Literary Supplement Taking one's own life goes against one of our strongest urges - the instinct of self-preservation. Times, Sunday Times As about 20 riders were scattered over the road by a horrific crash yesterday, slamming into tarmac and even a lamppost, the instinct of self-preservation must have bitten particularly hard. Times, Sunday Times When his discussions turn to human beings he introduces an instinct of self-preservation to account for their motivations. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Ultimately, he found solace in the instinct of self-preservation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 If your gut instinct is telling you to take a chance then trust it. The Sun (2015) Some atavistic instinct told her that shamming death was her only protection. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE His gut instinct told him that his new team members were well-meaning and deserved the chance to make the changes needed. Times, Sunday Times (2009) She bears an unusually strong spirit with a strong motherly instinct. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Where were her motherly instincts to love and protect her young daughter? The Sun She's certainly showing her motherly instincts. The Sun The football brain still is though, the natural instinct to score and assist was on display for all to see here. The Sun (2016) Although he often decried his ability as a lawyer he had a natural instinct for the law together with a firm grasp of the facts. Times, Sunday Times (2007) Our natural instinct is to shelter them. Times, Sunday Times (2012) His natural instinct is self-preservation, but he always does the right thing in the end. The Sun (2007) They may be unmated birds of the same family, or others that have lost their brood, but still have vestiges of their parental instinct. Times, Sunday Times And this parental instinct may already have played a part. Times, Sunday Times He presented his approach as going with parental instincts. Times, Sunday Times It also offers disturbing insights into certain cultural norms and profoundly misogynistic mindsets where perceived community standing overrides everything, even parental instincts. Times,Sunday Times Lastly, never ignore your parental instincts - act if worried. Times, Sunday Times But they're resisting their paternal instincts and letting you go through this in the way you wanted to. Christianity Today Yes, she was boisterous and adorable, and she brought out my paternal instincts. Times, Sunday Times In consequence, their paternal instincts are either somewhat blunt or non-existent. Times, Sunday Times Instead, he was acting out of cynical political instinct. Times, Sunday Times He taught himself how to lobby politicians and soon demonstrated a keen political instinct as to who needed to be persuaded of what. Times, Sunday Times The political instinct will be for collectivisation of the debt problem, offered at the price of greater powers over other countries' spending, taxing and borrowing. Times, Sunday Times The first was that her political instincts were, at last, starting to fail her. Times,Sunday Times She had a profound sense that wealth creation was about work, a moral thing, but her political instincts told her the value of cultivating risk-takers. Times, Sunday Times He meant it in terms of his predatory instinct, his movement in the box, but it came to stand for something else. Times, Sunday Times It also reveals a predatory instinct, essential to every striker. Times, Sunday Times Both his first-half tries were soft too, although they did illustrate a predatory instinct. Times, Sunday Times When they make contact with humans who want to play with them, they treat the humans as their pod - but they never lose their predatory instinct. Times, Sunday Times By contrast, cats use their predatory instincts to catch birds yet rarely need to eat them to survive, having the choice of human-provided cat food. Times, Sunday Times And those who understand at a young age the primal instinct to cultivate one's garden will inherit the earth. Times, Sunday Times Play will take care of a lot of their exercise needs; however, as with all breeds, play will not fulfill their primal instinct to walk. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But on the planes of high fashion, the primal instincts of beautifying and attracting have to be subverted and challenged. Times, Sunday Times It would also 'highlight those who help to make the game a game and not a battle of primal instincts'. Times, Sunday Times The study thus proves that the unrealistic body archetypes foregrounded by small-screen entertainment have a negative impact on the most primal instincts. Times,Sunday Times But they have primitive instincts about protecting their young, rather than the emotional bonds mammals have. The Sun The first parts to be sedated are the frontal lobes, which normally have an inhibitory effect on the rest of the brain, suppressing some of our more primitive instincts. Times, Sunday Times But emotions that originate in primitive instincts and fog the mind really must not exist. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The utter dependence of infants on adults has always aroused protective instincts. Times, Sunday Times (2006) Both he and the bear have protective instincts with their offspring. Christianity Today (2000) They spoke of the protective instinct that men have towards women, and how that would interfere with the single-minded conduct of a military operation. Times, Sunday Times (2006) He looked as if this was what he was born to do, as if he operated on pure instinct. Times, Sunday Times Those runs of his into the penalty box are pure instinct. The Sun I also thought — wrongly — that acting was all about pure instinct, rather than discipline. The Sun His dropped goal was pure instinct — and he struck it beautifully. The Sun They might just as easily do that on pure instinct. Times, Sunday Times If the first was strong, my capacity to act on the right instinct was greater. Times, Sunday Times That if it came to it, you'd have the right instincts for survival. Times,Sunday Times But he did have all the right instincts for the trade in which he was to be engaged, and developed a discriminating nose. Times, Sunday Times And the right instincts for the right success are just a small part of your day. The Sun Human beings have a strong instinct to pigeonhole each other. Times, Sunday Times I had a strong instinct to work next with very different contemporary material. Times, Sunday Times This effect describes our strong instinct to value what we have and resist losing it, even if we didn't want it much in the first place. Times, Sunday Times She has a strong instinct, which helps her figure out things. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Competitive negotiators have strong instincts for all aspects of negotiating and are often strategic. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Colleagues were in awe of his huge repertoire, his prodigious feats of sight-reading and, above all, his unerring instinct for his collaborators' musical intentions. Times, Sunday Times He was not only highly intelligent, he had an unerring instinct for the practical implications of policy proposals, combined with a persuasive negotiating ability. Times, Sunday Times His greatest gift was an unerring instinct for spotting and encouraging talent, and the list of his successes goes on and on. Times, Sunday Times He has an unerring instinct for placing the camera in a way that feels like a fresh perspective while nodding respectfully to the films that came before it. Times, Sunday Times With unerring instinct he cherished every pivot point in the seascapes' undulations. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 本能 Japanese: 本能 |
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