instincts

Again Magnus waved, about to yield to his better instincts and to the entreaties of his wife.

曼克奈斯不禁又迟疑起来，眼看快听从自己的本能，听从他妻子的恳求了。

You can also use it when someone is not certain where they're going, to tell him or her to follow their instincts.

也可以在别人不知该何去何从时使用，告诉他们凭他们的感觉或直觉去做。

But evidently his hawkish instincts, for the moment, have got the better of him.

但是，他的鹰派本能显然占了上风。

While centre forward Thierry Henry rarely scores a tap-in, Pires seems to picking up a poacher's instincts as he gets older.

作为中锋的亨利很少打入包抄推射的入球，而皮雷在岁数增大的同时却获得了一个禁区杀手的灵感。

His courage in doing so against the instincts of his own party, and his readiness to imperil his domestic agenda, should be commended.

他不惜违抗自己党派的意愿并打乱内务议程做出如此决定，可谓勇气可嘉。

If Mr McCain were to become president, he would also be well advised to restrain his instincts and redefine America's mission in Iraq.

如果麦肯恩当选总统，他也最好克制一下本能并且重新布署美国在伊拉克的任务。

Consequently, when recent unexpected developments threw arrangements into chaos, your instincts were to put things back as they were.

因此，当目前预料不到的发展将安排打乱，你的本能就是将事情归位。

At a time of a great natural calamity like a great earthquake, people just act according to their instincts and it's every man for himself.

像大地震那样的天灾爆发的时候，人们只有凭本能各自逃命了。

Economists said the surge in inflation also presented Asian central bankers with a conundrum that went against their instincts.

经济学家表示，通胀飙升还给亚洲各国央行官员带来了一个与其本能相悖的难题。

For all her sound instincts and skills as a politician, she appears to have no vision for the EU.

作为一位政治家尽管她有清醒的本能意识，但似乎对整个欧洲并没有远见卓识。

Her judgment was as young as she, but her instincts were as old as the race and older.

她的判断力跟她一样年轻，而本能却跟她的种族同样古老，甚至更古老。

He traveled to the Sith world of Ziost, where the energy of the dark side tempted him to give in to his basest instincts.

本来到西斯的星球锡奥斯特，在那里，黑暗面的能量引诱他屈服于最原始的本能。

So you have to be aware of that. That changes a little bit of your moves and your instincts.

所以你一定要清楚这一点，稍微改变一下脚步移动和直觉判断。

My instincts were to release the records and fight the prosecutor, but if the consensus was to do the reverse, I could live with it.

我的直觉是公开相关的档案，但拒绝指派特别检察官。不过，如果大家一致认为是相反的行为，我也可以接受。

Legendary ancestors once found it relatively easy to balance their feral instincts against their human wisdom, but no longer.

对神话中的先祖们来说保持野性本能和人类聪慧的平衡很简单，但是现在不是了。

After the Christmas Eve experience, Yancey had learned to trust his wife's instincts. "I'll give it a try, " he said.

自从上次圣诞前夕的奇妙经历后，扬西变得越来越相信妻子的直觉，于是他答道：“好吧，那我去尝试一下。”

something that would have definitely stirred up anxiety in the captives, as they would have been unable to follow their instincts.

可以确定，的确有某种东西激起了这些被困者们的烦躁，否则他们也就不能靠直觉行动了。

The fact seems to be that men are brought into the world with all the passions, instincts, and appetites, uncontrolled and undisciplined.

看来，实际情况是，人从出生到这个世界上来就同时带来了他的各种情感、本能和欲求，这些东西本不受约束，无所限制。

He was an administrative genius, with none of the hidebound instincts of some of his peers in Cheltenham.

他是行政管理方面的天才，绝无他在切尔滕纳姆市的某些同事的那种狭小气量。

(1) Say, buddy, not to cast aspersions on your survival instincts or nothing, but haven't mammoths pretty much gone extinct?

老兄，我不是怀疑你求生的本能，但是，猛犸象似乎快绝种了吧？