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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was so unlike his usual timid self-con-straint; so inconsistent with his usual taste and tact, and with his instinctive feeling for the higher proprieties.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is a curious thing, by the bye, for which I am quite unable to account, that these weird creatures the females, I mean had in the earlier days of my stay an instinctive sense of their own repulsive clumsiness, and displayed in consequence a more than human regard for the decency and decorum of extensive costume.
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：
-- Though, if I felt confident of his treachery ' 'Tis a safe thing to calculate on the knavery of an Iro-quois,' said the scout, throwing his rifle forward, by a sort of instinctive movement.
-- The scout, while making his remarks, was busied in col-lecting certain necessary implements; as he concluded, he moved silently by the group of travelers, accompanied by the Mohicans, who seemed to comprehend his intentions with instinctive readiness, when the whole three disap-peared in succession, seeming to vanish against the dark face of a perpendicular rock that rose to the height of a few yards, within as many feet of the water's edge.
-- Uncas, with instinctive quick-ness, receded, and the three foresters held another of their low, earnest conferences.
-- But Uncas, denying his habits, we had almost said his nature, flew with instinctive delicacy, accompanied by Heyward, to the assistance of the females, and quickly re-leasing Alice, placed her in the arms of Cora.
-- He found them on the threshold of the low edifice, already prepared to depart, and surrounded by a clamorous and weeping assemblage of their own sex, that had gathered about the place, with a sort of instinctive consciousness that it was the point most likely to be protected.
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：
-- Everyone talked a little louder than natural in an instinctive desire to make the party go, and there was a great deal of noise in the room.
-- His wife's tidiness was one of the traits which had so much pleased him; his own upbringing had given him a tender sympathy for the delight in orderliness; and when he had seen her instinctive desire to put each thing in its appointed place it had given him a little warm feeling in his heart.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, some birds sang and fluttered in the foliage, and appeared very timid, as if man had inspired them with an instinctive fear.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such an application from any other hand might not have produced a remarkable effect, but the child shrank so quickly from his touch and felt such an instinctive desire to get out of his reach, that she rose directly and declared herself ready to return.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The old instinctive dread of wild beasts came upon me.
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：
-- He felt an awful, enjoyable power over her, an instinctive cherishing very near to cruelty.
-- "Stop that," said Gerald, in quick, instinctive command.
-- She had an amazing instinctive critical faculty, and was a pure anarchist, a pure aristocrat at once.
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