Instinctive

(a.) Of or pertaining to instinct; derived from, or prompted by, instinct; of the nature of instinct; determined by natural impulse or propensity; acting or produced without reasoning, deliberation, instruction, or experience; spontaneous.

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• By touching something deeply instinctive in millions of people, Judge Lindsey animated dull proposals with human interest. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Most of its motives are purely instinctive, and all the mental life that it has is the result of heredity (birth inheritance). 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He had not loved her without gaining that instinctive knowledge of what capabilities were in her. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• When the instinctive question about a person is, What is he doing? 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Poor Sloppy flushed too, for there was an instinctive delicacy behind his buttons, and his own hand had struck it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• She had an amazing instinctive critical faculty, and was a pure anarchist, a pure aristocrat at once. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• He had again moved toward the door, and in her instinctive shrinking from him she let him regain command of the threshold. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• The instinctive c raving for power, the will to dominate, of which Nietzsche was the lyricist, was in these men subdued to patience, industry, and philanthropy. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Moreover to light a fire is the instinctive and resistant act of man when, at the winter ingress, the curfew is sounded throughout Nature. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• According to this theory, social control of individuals rests upon the instinctive tendency of individuals to imitate or copy the actions of others. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• As that hope failed, instinctive love of life animated me, and feelings of contention, as if a hostile will combated with mine. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Her father most,--for Eva, though she never distinctly thought so, had an instinctive perception that she was more in his heart than any other. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Modern psychology has substituted for the general, ready-made faculties of older theory a complex group of instinctive and impulsive tendencies. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• But compassion, in a moment, got the better of her instinctive recoil. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• But the disgust prevailed--all her instinctive resistances, of taste, of training, of blind inherited scruples, rose against the other feeling. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Impulses of sympathy came naturally to her, and it was instinctive to proffer her help to Mrs. Fisher. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• It is a familiar fact that the young of the higher animals, and especially the human young, have to learn to utilize their instinctive reactions. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• In this case a gradual change of structure is supposed to lead to changed instinctive habits. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Untrained human nature was not frank and innocent; it was full of the twists and defences of an instinctive guile. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Even the quite young aphides behaved in this manner, showing that the action was instinctive, and not the result of experience. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• She seemed like an animal of another species, and there was instinctive repugnance on both sides. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• She was at an up-stairs window; she saw him alight; she guessed the truth with an instinctive flash. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Did you ever tell him the strong, instinctive motive? 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• He felt an awful, enjoyable power over her, an instinctive cherishing very near to cruelty. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• With all his faults, Trenor had the safeguard of his traditions, and was the less likely to overstep them because they were so purely instinctive. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• It is scarcely possible to doubt that the love of man has become instinctive in the dog. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• But it is personal, untransferable, and, as it were, instinctive. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Food, bits and bridles, noises, vehicles, are used to direct the ways in which the natural or instinctive responses of horses occur. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• He was so honest, that her arts and cajoleries did not affect him, and he shrank from her with instinctive repulsion. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• He had met no such man as yet in the course of his experience, and he had an instinctive liking for a gentleman. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

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