| 单词 | spontaneous |
| 释义 | spon·ta·ne·ous I. 1. < spontaneous expression of affection and gratitude > < a spontaneous modernist in theology and philosophy — George Santayana > < spontaneous boycott > < spontaneous obedience > 2. < spontaneous offer of assistance > < this diary has the spontaneous quality of a child's observations made for her own pleasure — Ellen L. Buell > < spontaneous improvising on a melody > 3. < spontaneous movement is characteristic of all living things > < proves that there must be spontaneous activity as well as derivative activity in the universe — C.H.Whiteley > 4. < spontaneous growth of wood > 5. a. < spontaneous nosebleed > < spontaneous fracture > < spontaneous abortion > b. < spontaneous remission of nervous symptoms > < spontaneous recovery from a disease > 6. < the fact that the experiences are spontaneous and not laboratory products make these cases of the highest importance — W.H.Salter > Synonyms: < find ourselves making an immediate and spontaneous answer — W.T.Hastings > < his sentiment was spontaneous rather than introspective — H.S.Commager > < spontaneous laughter > < at ease with us … generally gay, always spontaneous and natural — Dorothy Bussy > impulsive applies to apparently involuntary acts actuated suddenly and impetuously on the spur of the momentary feeling or spirit < her childlikeness, her headlong sympathies, the impulsive traits that endeared — W.R.Benét > < impulsive, reckless and unreliable — A.E.Stevenson b. 1900 > instinctive stresses the involuntary, often unconscious, character of an instantaneous, spontaneous act, suggesting the compulsion of native predisposition or long conditioning rather than of the will < the instinctive movement of his agile frame — Nathaniel Hawthorne > < he did what he did instinctively and for no other reason than because it was most natural to him — Samuel Butler †1902 > < long and laborious planning to carry out elaborately conceived intellectual effort was not her way. Everything was inborn, instinctive, spontaneous — Gamaliel Bradford > automatic and mechanical both apply to acts which do not seem to engage the mind. automatic usually stresses promptness and invariableness in a response to a given set of stimuli, as from long habit or repetition, often implying a training or discipline and sometimes a precision of response < he said the right thing, performed the appropriate action, so unceasingly, day after day, night after night, that it had become simply automatic — Elizabeth Goudge > < his easy, automatic smile — Luke Short > < the artist's movements with the pencil were swift and automatic; in a few minutes the sketch was complete > mechanical, though it can apply to any act, usually repeated, performed with little or no conscious ordering of movements, usually connotes a lifelessness and perfunctoriness of response < shorthand and typewriting, both of which are purely mechanical activities — George Sampson > < many of the situations which previously elicited emotional response come to be met in a mechanical or routine fashion — J.E.Anderson > < not with any interest or curiosity, but with a dull mechanical perception — Charles Dickens > II. archaic < to her lips … the minstrel verse spontaneous came — Sir Walter Scott > |
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