instinctive是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 本能的， 天性的，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：
-- Ever since their first meeting, McNabbs had felt an instinctive distrust of the quartermaster.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Either Saint Antoine had an instinctive sense that the objectionable decoration was gone, or Saint Antoine was on the watch for its disappear-ance; howbeit, the Saint took courage to lounge in, very shortly afterwards, and the wine-shop recovered its habit-262 A tale of two citiesual aspect.
-- No man ever really loved a woman, lost her, and knew her with a blameless though an unchanged mind, when she was a wife and a mother, but her children had a strange sympathy with him an instinctive delicacy of pity for him.
-- In the instinctive association of prisoners with shameful crime and disgrace, the new-comer recoiled from this com-pany.
-- Of a strong and fearless character, of shrewd sense and readiness, of great determination, of that kind of beauty which not only seems to impart to its possessor firmness and animosity, but to strike into others an instinctive recognition of those qualities; the troubled time would have heaved her up, un-der any circumstances.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was revealed to her that besides the instinctive life to which Kitty had given herself up hitherto there was a spiritual life.
-- The big house with the old family furniture; the rather dirty, far from stylish, but respectful footmen, unmistakably old house serfs who had stuck to their master; the stout, good-natured wife in a cap with lace and a Turkish shawl, petting her pretty grandchild, her daughter's daughter; the young son, a sixth form high school boy, coming home from school, and greeting his father, kissing his big hand; the genuine, cordial words and gestures of the old man--all this had the day before roused an instinctive feeling of respect and sympathy in Levin.
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：
-- It was an instant of full, direct, purely instinctive joy.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She always returned, with greater emphasisand with an instinctive knowledge of the strength of her objection,'Let us have no meandering.'
-- I liked him no better than at first, and had the sameuneasy jealousy of him; but if I had any reason for it beyond achild's instinctive dislike, and a general idea that Peggotty and Icould make much of my mother without any help, it certainly wasnot the reason that I might have found if I had been older.
-- No matter how incidentally or naturally Iendeavoured to form my little wife's mind, I could not help seeingthat she always had an instinctive perception of what I was about,and became a prey to the keenest apprehensions.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She should then have heard more: Mrs. Weston would speak to her, with a degree of unreserve which she would not haz-ard with Isabella; and, she really believed, would scarcely try to conceal any thing relative to the Churchills from her, excepting those views on the young man, of which her own imagination had already given her such instinctive knowl-edge.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The instinctive act of humankind was to stand and listen, and learn how the trees on the right and the trees on the left wailed or chaunted to each other in the regular antiphonies of a cathedral choir; how hedges and other shapes to leeward then caught the note, lowering it to the tenderest sob; and how the hurrying gust then plunged into the south, to be heard no more.
-- The vast arch of cloud above was strangely low, and formed as it were the roof of a large dark cavern, gradually sinking in upon its floor; for the instinctive thought was that the snow lining the heavens and that encrusting the earth would soon unite into one mass without any intervening stratum of air at all.
-- Gabriel at this time of his life had out-grown the instinctive dislike which every Christian boy has for reading the Bible, perusing it now quite frequently, and he inwardly said, "'I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets!'"
-- So little are instinctive guesses the fruit of a legitimate induction that, at this moment, as he stood with the door in his hand, Troy never once thought of Fanny in connection with what he saw.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Once again, Stephen had to conquer an instinctive propensity to dislike this old woman, though her manner was as honest and simple as a manner possibly could be.
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：
-- And there his hand softly, softly, stroked the curve of her flank, in the blind instinctive caress.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was an instinctive testimony to Little Dorrit's worth and difference from all the rest, that the poor young fellow honoured and loved her for being simply what she was.
-- She could see that it had its part in throwing upon Mrs Gowan the touch of a shadow under which she lived, and she even had an instinctive knowledge that there was not the least truth in it.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So the toast was drunk, the pledge made and loyally kept in spite of many temptations, for with instinctive wisdom, the girls seized a happy moment to do their friend a service, for which he thanked them all his life.
-- She had an instinctive sense of what was pleasing and proper, always said the right thing to the right person, did just what suited the time and place, and was so self-possessed that her sisters used to say, 'If Amy went to court without any rehearsal beforehand, she'd know exactly what to do.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such, gentlemen, is the inflexibility of sea-usages and the instinctive love of neatness in seamen; some of whom would not willingly drown without first washing their faces.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We must remember that it may not be a knowledge of right, for no knowledge of right is predicated of the animal's instinctive recoil at evil.
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