反应本能

Possibly, it was an instinctive device of her spirit to relieve itself by the exhibition of these phantasmagoric forms, from the cruel weight and hardness of the reality.

可能，这是她心理上的一种本能反应：通过展现这些各色各样、变幻莫测的画面，把自己的精神从眼前这残酷现实的无情重压下解脱出来。

After this experiment, the personnel bemocked the shark as the fainthearted fish in the sea.

后来，鲨鱼不再冲撞那块玻璃了，对那些斑斓的热带鱼也不再在意，好像他们只是墙上会动的壁画，它开始等着每天固定会出现的鲫鱼，然后用他敏捷的本能进行狩猎，好像回到海中不可一世的凶狠霸气，但这一切只不过是假像罢了，实验到了最后的阶段，实验人员将玻璃取走，但鲨鱼却没有反应，每天仍是在固定的区域游着它不但对那些热带鱼视若无睹，甚至于当那些鲫鱼逃到那边去，他就立刻放弃追逐，说什么也不愿再过去，实验结束了，实验人员讥笑它是海里最懦弱的鱼。

You have to keep your reflexes so that when you want it.

你必须遵守你的本能反应因此什么时候你都要想着它。

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

爱情是本能反应与深思熟虑的冲突。

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

爱情是本能反应和深思熟虑的一种冲突。

The most natural thing is to try retaliating, paying back the person in his/her own coin.

最本能的反应就是报复，以牙还牙。

But even after all this time driving here, I still can't help my instinctive reaction: Hey, you idiot, why are you tooting at me?

但即便在三个月后我来到这里时，我仍然无法控制我的本能反应：喂，你这笨蛋，为什么要向我鸣喇叭啊？

Military training aims to instil the appropriate response to such situations as second nature, but the extreme stress of combat can cloud even the best-trained minds, making people act in confused and sometimes dangerous ways.

军队训练目的在于给军人灌输战场上适当的反应作为第二本能，但战场上极端的压力能击垮甚至千锤百炼的心智，使其产生混乱甚至危险的行为。

For instance, through the response which is made to the child's instinctive babblings the child comes to know what those babblings mean; they are transformed into articulate language and thus the child is introduced into the consolidated wealth of ideas and emotions which are now summed up in language.

比方说，对儿童出于本能的那些呀呀学语的声音做出的反应，儿童借此就知道那些呀呀之声是什么意思；那些声音转变成了音节清楚的语言，因此儿童就被介绍进了观念和情感的那个巩固而统一的宝库当中，那些观念和感情如今概括在语言当中了。

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind,and finds the readiest response.

说的越本能就说的人类越深，并发现最易于读出的反应。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。