0 the way people or animals naturally react or behave, without having to think or learn about it -- 本能，直覺
All his instincts told him to stay near the car and wait for help. 他的直覺告訴他要留在車旁、等待救援。
[ + to infinitive ] Her first instinct was to run. 她的第一反應是逃跑。
It is instinct that tells the birds when to begin their migration. 是本能讓鳥類知道何時開始遷徙。
figurative Bob seems to have an instinct for (= is naturally good at) knowing which products will sell. 鮑勃好像能憑直覺知道哪些產品有銷路。
Moreover, proposals that were technically elegant could run up against the instincts of the politicians.
Our instincts about internal compromise suggest another political ideal standing beside justice and fairness.
By experience and by instinct, people understood what they could not write about.
There are simply too many constituencies, too many prejudices and too many conflicting instincts to satisfy.
With self-consciousness comes a demand for philosophical justification of the state-building process, but that process has been going on in obedience to elemental instinct.
Individuals in crowds, it was argued, lost their reason and yielded to instinct.
Their minds and wills atrophied, and they became solely creatures of sensual instinct.
Various social and institutional arrangements were put into place or expanded to deal with satisfying the gregarious instinct.
