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instinct

/in-stingkt/US // ˈɪn stɪŋkt //

本能,本能的,直觉,本能地

Related Words

intuition直觉,直观,直感,直觉性knack诀窍,窍门,技巧talent人才,人才培养,人才济济hunch直觉,预感,预测,驼背sentiment感情,情绪,情感,情操aptitude性向,材性,资质,能力impulse冲动,冲力,脉冲,冲动的sense意义,感觉,感官,意识savvy有经验的,有经验的人,有见识的,有见识的人feeling感受,感觉,感情,感到tendency倾向性,趋势,趋向,倾向inclination倾斜度,倾向性,倾角,倾向urge敦促,督促,促成,促请proclivity倾向性,倾向于,倾向predisposition预设条件,预设情况,预设,预设性gift礼物,礼品,馈赠,赠品know-how知识,窍门,诀窍,技巧nose鼻子,鼻腔,鼻部,鼻腔内faculty教师,教师队伍,教师们,教师团队gut reaction肠道反应,肠胃反应,内脏反应,肠胃的反应

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an inborn pattern of activity or tendency to action common to a given biological species.
    • : a natural or innate impulse, inclination, or tendency.
    • : a natural aptitude or gift: an instinct for making money.
    • : natural intuitive power.

Synonyms & Antonyms

noungut feeling, idea
Forms: instincts
Synonyms
aptitude性向,材性,资质,能力feeling感受,感觉,感情,感到hunch直觉,预感,预测,驼背impulse冲动,冲力,脉冲,冲动的inclination倾斜度,倾向性,倾角,倾向intuition直觉,直观,直感,直觉性knack诀窍,窍门,技巧savvy有经验的,有经验的人,有见识的,有见识的人sense意义,感觉,感官,意识sentiment感情,情绪,情感,情操talent人才,人才培养,人才济济tendency倾向性,趋势,趋向,倾向faculty教师,教师队伍,教师们,教师团队gift礼物,礼品,馈赠,赠品know-how知识,窍门,诀窍,技巧nose鼻子,鼻腔,鼻部,鼻腔内predisposition预设条件,预设情况,预设,预设性proclivity倾向性,倾向于,倾向urge敦促,督促,促成,促请funny feeling有趣的感觉,可笑的感觉,有趣的感受,有趣的感覺gut reaction肠道反应,肠胃反应,内脏反应,肠胃的反应sixth sense第六感,第六感觉,第六意识,第六感官

Examples

  • It could have made Tristan question everything he was doing and doubt all of his instincts.

  • We definitely knew it was about the human instinct for companionship and love, and the human instinct for a social contract — believing and trusting people.

  • I think it’s got a lot of great knowledge on how to keep yourself safe and trust your instincts.

  • You just have a gut instinct and a lot of experience to be able to try and guide it in that way.

  • Perhaps you have an instinct that analyzing a certain data set would yield interesting results.

  • “I have a survivalist instinct,” said Ben, a 28-year-old New Yorker.

  • Certainly my instinct is to identify with the police, no matter the circumstance.

  • In a flash he deflects the shot, with the speed of instinct, right past the goalkeeper.

  • The human desire for knowledge and exploration is an absolute good, and we need to follow that instinct.

  • Perhaps his conservative political instinct will ultimately keep Murdoch from plunging fully into the yes camp.

  • It seems to be a true instinct which comes before education and makes education possible.

  • Imitation of the ways of their elders doubtless plays a part here, but it is aided by an instinct for adornment.

  • Long before reason found the answer, instinct—swift, merciless interpreter—told him plainly.

  • From the movement behind him Marius guessed almost by instinct that Garnache had drawn back for a lunge.

  • He believes, he has an instinct, that here is the heel of the German Colossus, otherwise immune to our arrows.

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