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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He let go by an effort; his instinct was all against it.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Certain matters, however, in which old instinct was at war with Moreau's convenience, were in a less stable condi-tion.
-- I know this is an illusion; that these seeming men and women about me are indeed men and women, men and women for ever, perfectly reasonable creatures, full of human desires and tender solicitude, emancipated from instinct and the slaves of no fantastic Law, beings altogether different from the Beast Folk.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It struck him, as he gazed at the admirable structures and the wonderful pre-cautions of their sagacious inmates, that even the brutes of these vast wilds were possessed of an instinct nearly com-mensurate with his own reason; and he could not reflect, without anxiety, on the unequal contest that he had so rashly courted.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It meant that she had heard some scandal about one of her friends, and the instinct of the literary woman was all alert.
-- It was this: I asked myself whether there was not in his soul some deep-rooted instinct of creation, which the circumstances of his life had obscured, but which grew relentlessly, as a cancer may grow in the living tissues, till at last it took possession of his whole being and forced him irresistibly to action.
-- But how strange it was that the creative instinct should seize upon this dull stockbroker, to his own ruin, perhaps, and to the misfortune of such as were dependent on him; and yet no stranger than the way in which the spirit of God has seized men, powerful and rich, pursuing them with stubborn vigilance till at last, conquered, they have abandoned the joy of the world and the love of women for the painful austerities of the cloister.
-- But the desire for approbation is perhaps the most deeply seated instinct of civilised man.
-- I recognised my moral weakness, but saw that my disapprobation had in it already something of a pose; and I knew that if I felt it, his own keen instinct had discovered it, too.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How was it that his instinct had guided him straight to the Chimneys, which he did not know?
-- They resembled a Switzerland modeled in sand, and only an amazing instinct could have possibly recognized the way.
-- We have heard how, guided by an instinct which might be looked upon almost as supernatural, Top had found them.
-- Top's instinct was useful to the hunters, who, thanks to the intelligent animal, were enabled to discover the road by which they had come.
-- In fact, Top, who felt that his interest was concerned went and ferreted everywhere with an instinct doubled by a ferocious appetite.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perhaps I had heard a creak or seen his shadow moving with the tail of my eye; perhaps it was an instinct like a cat's; but, sure enough, when I looked round, there was Hands, already half-way towards me, with the dirk in his right hand.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His formidable apparatus not only suited his instinct of freedom, but perhaps also the design of some terrible retaliation.
-- Captain Nemo pointed with his hand to the enormous heap of oysters; and I could well understand that this mine was inexhaustible, for Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.
-- Often seeing no exit, I thought we were definitely prisoners; but, instinct guiding him at the slightest indication, Captain Nemo would discover a new pass.
-- These creatures have the instinct to break holes in the ice-field and to keep them open.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "If one is a woman, and grown up, one's instinct prevents one.
-- It was against his instinct to approach anybody.
-- It was an instinct in her, to deceive herself.
-- The instinct for chaos had entered.
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