instincts

The company's conservative instincts sit ill with competition.

该公司保守的本性不利于竞争。

Were I an atheist-a man devoid of conscience-a wretch with coarse and brutal instincts-I might have found peace, long ere now.

如果我是一个无神论者，一个丧尽良心的人，一个本性粗野的恶棍，或许我早就得到了平静。

The crisis in the eurozone shows how the herd instincts of capital markets can destabilise an entire continent.

欧元区危机证明了资本市场的从众天性可以给整个大陆的稳定造成多大的破坏。

The domesticated cat retains its predatory instincts.

猫依然保持着捕食动物的天性.

Their instincts warned them something was amiss.

他们直觉上感到有什么地方不对劲儿。

Those instincts that in him were so close to the surface suddenly leaped to life.

他天生那股一触即发的欲望产生了.

Many animals display maternal instincts only while their offspring are young and helpless.

许多动物在其幼崽弱小无法自助时都显出了母性的本能.

Dick supposed that his travelling instincts , his appetite for adventure , were calmed.

狄克猜想, 他朋友旅行的爱好和冒验的瘾头冷淡下去了.

I won't pause here to defend the pro found instincts of Aristophanes against such attacks but shall proceed to demonstrate the close affinity between Socrates and Euripides, as their contemporaries saw them.

这里，我并不想替阿里斯托芬的深识灼见辩护，以反驳这种诽谤，我将继续从古人的观感方面来证明苏格拉底和欧里庇德斯的密切关系。

After having been subjugated to ambition, your maternal instincts are at last starting to assert themselves.

你那被雄心壮志压制已久的母性本能终于开始展现出来。

His loner instincts are honed sharp by the spying game.

他那深居简出的性格就是在长期的谍报工作中磨炼出来的。

James Bond: I must have appealed to her maternal instincts!

占士邦: 我一定激发了她的母性!

One is that these instincts appear at a very young age before most parents have started to train children to behave socially ．

其一,这些本能在很小的时候就出现了,而大多数父母还没有开始训练孩子的社交行为。

She had enough of the instincts of a housewife to take great satisfaction in these things.

她很具有家庭主妇的天性,因而对这些设施非常满意.

territorial instincts

地盘性本能

After all , Jon has the instincts of a gentleman.

乔恩反正天性正派.

She didn't have any maternal instincts.

她没有一点做母亲的天性。

Their instincts do not always run parallel with ours

他们的本能并不总是和我们的相同。

His first instincts led him to choose an ecclesiastical career.

他很早就热衷于传教士的职业.

However, aggression must be delicately balanced in the dog's temperament of both fight and flight instincts.

然而, 在犬的禀性中,防御性必须取得微妙的平衡.防御性与战-逃本能相关.

Your instincts lurk, ready to jump on the lurking ones and snatch them.

你的本能潜伏着,一旦那潜伏者出现, 你随时扑上去,攫走.

her motherly instincts

她的母性本能

Don't ask me; follow your instincts and do what you think is right.

不要问我, 凭你自己的直觉行事,你认为什么是对的就去做什么.

We may wear collars and ties instead of war-paint, but our instincts remain basically unchanged.

我们可以穿衣领、领带代替战争画, 但我们的本能仍基本没改变.

The sight of the hopeless little boy aroused her maternal instincts.

那个绝望的小男孩的模样唤起了她的母性.

And the gambler's instincts took over.

接着赌徒的冲动占了上风.

Their instincts do not always run parallel with ours.

他们的本能并不总是和我们的相同。

They arouse instincts which can only be dimly understood.

对于他们所激起的本能冲动,人们只能有个模糊的领略.

The debate over the parental instincts of the T. Rex is now academic.

关于霸王龙父性的论点现在有学术依据了.

He aroused her mothering instincts.

他激发了她母性的本能。