instinct
/ˈɪn.stɪŋkt/ 名词 B2中文： 本能、天性
- A natural or inherent impulse or behaviour. · Many animals fear fire by instinct.
- An intuitive reaction not based on rational conscious thought. · an instinct for order; to be modest by instinct· Debbie's instinct was to distrust John.
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“Or, rather, by instinct.”
The Snake was quickly revived by the warmth, and resuming its natural instincts, bit its benefactor, inflicting on him a mortal wound.
“Yes, for you who detest those unhappy princes, Beauchamp, and are always delighted to find fault with them; but not for me, who discover a gentleman by instinct, and who scent out an aristocratic family like a very bloodhound of heraldry.”
Of course Mowgli, as a woodcutter’s child, inherited all sorts of instincts, and used to make little huts of fallen branches without thinking how he came to do it.
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