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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Almost breathless with the swift motion, frozen with the cold air, which pierced them through, and blinded with the whirling snow, they gasped for breath, and became exhausted and nearly inanimate, only retaining their hold of the rocks by a powerful instinct of self-preservation.
-- It was gradually getting dark when the little party entered the wide streets of Seymour, under Paganel's guidance, who seemed always to know what he had never seen; but his instinct led him right, and he walked straight to Campbell's North British Hotel.
-- The sailor instinct rose above the stupefaction of the drunkard and roused Will Halley.
-- From prudential motives they did not allow themselves to straggle, and by instinct they kept a look-out over the undulating plains to the eastward, ready with their loaded carbines.
-- Paganel took the post of leader, and his wonderful instinct shone out anew in this difficult mountain journey.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Your instinct is always to do something energetic.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The necessity of eating and drinking, that is to say, solely the instinct of self-preservation...' 'Is not that enough?
-- The instinct of self-preservation is the normal law of humanity...' 'Who told you that?'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- People sprang off the pavement: It passed in shouts, it passed by instinct down the hill.
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：
-- He had pushed his way by sheer instinct and sheerer effron-tery on to the stage and to the front of it, with his plays.
-- But it all hinges on the instinct for success.
-- 'Why, Connie, I should trust your natural instinct of de-cency and selection.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nothing could be more agreeable than his frank and courteous bearing, or adapted with a more gentlemanly instinct to the circumstances of his visit.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I don't know whether the study of Shakespeare helped her to read character, or the natural instinct of a woman for what was honest, brave, and strong, but while endowing her imaginary heroes with every perfection under the sun, Jo was discovering a live hero, who interested her in spite of many human imperfections.
-- He had no thought of a melodramatic plunge, but some blind instinct led him to fling hat and coat into his boat, and row away with all his might, making better time up the river than he had done in any race.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I now by instinct followed the streets that took me waterward, for there, doubtless, were the cheapest, if not the cheeriest inns.
-- No: but here thou beholdest even in a dumb brute, the instinct of the knowledge of the demonism in the world.
-- But no sooner did the herd, by some presumed wonderful instinct of the Sperm Whale, become notified of the three keels that were after them, though as yet a mile in their rear, than they rallied again, and forming in close ranks and battalions, so that their spouts all looked like flashing lines of stacked bayonets, moved on with redoubled velocity.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her instinct in the matter of dress was naturally better.
-- The instinct of self-protection, strong in all such natures, was roused but feebly, if at all, by the overtures of Drouet.
-- When this jangle of free-will instinct shall have been adjusted, when perfect under standing has given the former the power to replace the latter entirely, man will no longer vary.
-- In Carrie--as in how many of our worldlings do they not?-- instinct and reason, desire and understanding, were at war for the mastery.
-- Men are still led by instinct before they are regulated by knowledge.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I go a good deal on instinct; and my instinct said she would be coming up from down towards Orleans.
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