instinctive

英 [ɪnˈstɪŋktɪv]

美 [ɪnˈstɪŋktɪv]

adj.  本能的; 直觉的; 天生的

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Collins.2 / BNC.8715 / COCA.14454

牛津词典

adj.

• 本能的；直觉的；天生的
  based on instinct , not thought or training
  1. instinctive knowledge
     本能的知识
  2. She's an instinctive player.
     她是个天生的运动员。
  3. My instinctive reaction was to deny everything.
     我的本能反应是否认一切。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 本能的;天性的;直觉的
  Aninstinctivefeeling, idea, or action is one that you have or do without thinking or reasoning.
  1. It's an absolutely instinctive reaction—if a child falls you pick it up...
     这完全是本能的反应——如果一个孩子摔倒了你会把他扶起来。
  2. Ms Senatorova showed an instinctive feel for market economics.
     谢纳托罗娃女士对市场经济学有一种天生的敏感。

英英释义

adj

• unthinking
  1. a cat's natural aversion to water
  2. offering to help was as instinctive as breathing
  Synonym:natural

双语例句

• The unconscious is certainly the source of instinctive activity.
  无意识是当然之源出于本能的活动。
• Q.Are you an instinctive actor? Do you like repeating shots?
  那你觉得你是个天生的演员吗？你喜欢一遍遍反复拍那些镜头吗？
• Having read this, what's your instinctive reaction?
  读过这些之后，你的本能反应是什么？
• My instinctive measure of a society is how closely it resembles South African apartheid.
  我衡量一个社会时，本能上会看其与南非种族隔离制度的相近程度。
• I think most of us have the instinctive ability to discern between the merely obsequious and the purely altruistic.
  提要我想我们大部分人都可以直觉的辨认出逢迎谄媚和纯粹的利他行为。
• She's an instinctive player.
  她是个天生的运动员。
• Accept that you have an inborn, instinctive style of action.
  承认自己有一个与生俱来的、本能的行为风格。
• It's an absolutely instinctive reaction — if a child falls you pick it up
  这完全是本能的反应——如果一个孩子摔倒了你会把他扶起来。
• During our training and subsequent practice, this urge to help and to heal becomes almost instinctive.
  在我们的培训和随后的实践过程中，这种想帮助和医治的强烈愿望几乎变成了本能。
• Learning is a natural pleasure, inborn and instinctive, one of the essential pleasures of the human race.
  学习是一种自然的乐趣，是与生俱来而且是本能的，它是人类基本的乐趣之一。