instinct是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 本能，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miss Pross, on the instinct of the moment, seized her round the waist in both her arms, and held her tight.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With a child's keen instinct for every manifestation of feeling, he saw distinctly that his father, his governess, his nurse,--all did not merely dislike Vronsky, but looked on him with horror and aversion, though they never said anything about him, while his mother looked on him as her greatest friend.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had three children, all born when Gottlieb was over thirty- eight: Miriam, the youngest, an ardent child who had a touch at the piano, an instinct about Beethoven, and hatred for the "ragtime" popular in America; an older sister who was nothing in particular; and their boy Robert-- Robert Koch Gottlieb.
-- Still, she's got the best instinct for honesty that I've ever known.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Instinct helped him.
-- 758 Crime and Punishment He preferred to attribute it to the dead weight of instinct which he could not step over, again through weakness and meanness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With the unerring instinct of her noble heart, she touchedthe chords of my memory so softly and harmoniously, that not onejarred within me; I could listen to the sorrowful, distant music, anddesire to shrink from nothing it awoke.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beside her Oak now noticed a little calf about a day old, looking idiotically at the two women, which showed that it had not long been accustomed to the phenomenon of eyesight, and often turning to the lantern, which it apparently mistook for the moon, inherited instinct having as yet had little time for correction by experience.
-- Yet she was not a shy girl by any means; it was merely her instinct to draw the line dividing the seen from the unseen higher than they do it in towns.
-- Indeed, the sensation was so pronounced that her instinct on two or three occasions was merely to walk as a queen among these gods of the fallow, like a little sister of a little Jove, and to neglect closing prices altogether.
-- Now I'll be more interesting, and let you see some loose play giving all the cuts and points, infantry and cavalry, quicker than lightning, and as promiscuously with just enough rule to regulate instinct and yet not to fetter it.
-- It was only whispered, for something unutterably mournful no less than distressing in this spectacle of a man showing himself to be so entirely the vane of a passion enervated the feminine instinct for punctilios.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Instinct stronger than reasonand knowledge born of experience told her that he loved her.
-- Honey was a fool, a silly, a simpleton about men, but she had a feminine instinct about other women thatScarlett had underestimated.
-- She avoided the high-backed chairs, the empty gun rack, the old sideboardwith its protruding claw feet, and she felt herself drawn by instinct to the tiny office at the back of the house whereEllen always sat, keeping her endless accounts.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perhaps my master might refine a little in these specula-tions, which he had drawn from what he observed himself, or had been told him by others; however, I could not reflect without some amazement, and much sorrow, that the rudi-ments of lewdness, coquetry, censure, and scandal, should have place by instinct in womankind.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He thought, as she once more shaded them not so much looking at him, as looking for him with a brutish instinct that he was there that no single trace was left in those debauched features, or in the mind that went along with them, of the woman he had married eighteen years before.
-- It may not be all-sufficient; how can I venture this morning to say it is!If that other kind of wisdom should be what I have neglected, and should be the instinct that is wanted, Louisa 'He suggested it very doubtfully, as if he were half unwilling to admit it even now.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I did not wish to abandon him at the bottom of that abyss, while, on the other hand, the instinct of preservation told me to fly.
-- The nature of the rock makes this a mathematical certainty, and instinct agrees with logic to say that it is so.
-- I did not know a single word of the Danish language, and yet by a sort of mysterious instinct I understood what the guide had said.
-- Guided by an instinct peculiar to the dwellers in mountain regions and water finders, he "smelt" the living spring through the rock.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Clifford was a coming man; and it was remarkable what a sound publicity instinct he had.
-- Connie wondered a little over Clifford's blind, imperious instinct to become known: known, that is, to the vast amor-phous world he did not himself know, and of which he was uneasily afraid; known as a writer, as a first-class modern writer.
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