Instinct

(noun.) inborn pattern of behavior often responsive to specific stimuli; 'the spawning instinct in salmon'; 'altruistic instincts in social animals'.

(adj.) (followed by `with')deeply filled or permeated; 'imbued with the spirit of the Reformation'; 'words instinct with love'; 'it is replete with misery' .

录入:威廉敏娜

• It's not an instinct, it's a habit of cowardliness. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Nothing in my powers or instinct placed me amongst this brave band. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• It is in the nature and instinct of some women. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• A look of terror came over the sweet smiling face, and she clung to George as by an instinct. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Is it the secret instinct of decaying nature, or the soul's impulsive throb, as immortality draws on? 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The forewarning of my instinct was but fulfilled, when I discovered her, all cold and vigilant, perched like a white bird on the outside of the bed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• All this Caroline knew, partly by instinct, partly by observation. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• It must, however, be admitted that in many instances we cannot conjecture whether it was instinct or structure which first varied. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Even when a person is frightened by threats into doing something, the threats work only because the person has an instinct of fear. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• What shall we say to the instinct which leads the bee to make cells, and which has practically anticipated the discoveries of profound mathematicians? 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• This faculty, or instinct, was now rouzed. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The nomadic instinct can not be educated out of an Indian at all. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Nothing could be more agreeable than his frank and courteous bearing, or adapted with a more gentlemanly instinct to the circumstances of his visit. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• In this extremity his instinct led him to Gudrun. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Her woman's instinct had told her that it was George who had interrupted the success of her first love-passage, and she esteemed him accordingly. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• He knew he should have to go slowly, and the instincts of his race fitted him to suffer rebuffs and put up with delays. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Gerty's compassionate instincts, responding to the swift call of habit, swept aside all her reluctances. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• What is it but the worst and last form of intellectualism, this love of yours for passion and the animal instincts? 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Doesn't it destroy all our spontaneity, all our instincts? 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• She constantly evinced these nice perceptions and delicate instincts. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• We can thus understand why nature moves by graduated steps in endowing different animals of the same class with their several instincts. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Thirdly, can instincts be acquired and modified through natural selection? 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The idea of property arises out of the combative instincts of the species. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In managing the wild instincts of the scarce manageable _bête fauve_ my powers would revel. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• All my medical instincts rose up against that laugh. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• If left to himself his instincts would have been either to return to King's Pyland or go over to Mapleton. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• No donkeys ever existed that were as hard to navigate as these, I think, or that had so many vile, exasperating instincts. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• You know what woman's instincts are. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• He had succeeded in stealing the government of his country, and made a change in its form against the wishes and instincts of his people. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Ants, however, work by inherited instincts and by inherited organs or tools, while man works by acquired knowledge and manufactured instruments. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.

校对:菲利斯