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

• I have an instinctive distrust of authority.
  我天生不信任当权者。
• Most people believe that they are a reasonable judge of character and trust their instinctive feelings.
  大多数人相信他们是合理判断人的性格，相信他们本能的感觉。
• Having read this, what's your instinctive reaction?
  读过这些之后，你的本能反应是什么？
• Unlike these more complex feelings, fear is instinctive, they say, and requires no conscious thought.
  他们说，恐惧不同于这些更为复杂的情感，恐惧是天生的，不需要有意识的思维。
• 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。
• Even so, he lacks the instinctive charm of a politician.
  即便如此，他也缺乏一个政治家与生俱来的魅力。
• 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。
• Instinctive desire of love!
  爱的欲望出于本能！
• I am looking for creativity& Can they be instinctive?
  我寻求创造力&他们是否有随机应变的能力？
• 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。