Birds do not learn to build nests, but build them by instinct.

鸟类并没有学习去筑巢，而是依本能去筑巢。

But if a large herbivore stumbled across their path, they would attack by instinct.

不过要是大型植食动物经过领地，它们会本能地发动攻击。

He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct.

为自己出于本能所相信的东西寻找出的蹩脚的解释！

As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

仿佛那时人们的信仰是出于本能似的！一个人相信什么是由他的条件设置决定的。

They are driven by instincts which are not within their control.

他们被不受他们控制的本能所驱使。

He kept his eyes fixed on the instruments, gliding by instinct, fighting for altitude.

他的眼睛一直盯着仪器，本能地滑行，为高度而战。

I simply am going to act by instinct, and let principles take care of themselves.

我只是凭直觉行事， 让原则自行其是。

As long as we follow our instincts moment by moment, we will wander aimlessly, which will lead us to dead ends.

只要我们一刻不停地遵循自己的本能，我们就会漫无目的地徘徊，这将把我们带到死胡同。

" She is Captain Vye's granddaughter, and her father merely took her mother's name. And she is a lady by instinct."

“她是维伊船长的外孙女，她的父亲只不过是跟了她母亲的姓。她凭天性就是一个小姐。”

The two men would have disliked each other by instinct had they lived in different planets.

如果他们生活在不同的星球上， 这两个人会本能地讨厌对方。

Searle's head moved sideways by instinct, so that the beer streamed over his neck and shoulder.

塞尔的头本能地侧向一边， 让啤酒流过他的脖子和肩膀。

They hug you by instinct when you pick them up, because that's what they do with their mothers!

当你抱起他们时， 他们会本能地拥抱你，因为这就是他们对待母亲的方式！

In every hundred men, a certain number obstruct by instinct, and try to invent reasons to explain it afterwards.

每一百人中， 有一部分人本能地阻挠， 事后还想方设法解释。

She seemed to possess by instinct all the household wisdom that his long apprenticeship had not instilled in him.

她似乎本能地拥有他长期的学徒生涯没有灌输给他的所有家庭智慧。

It is my way—it always was my way, by instinct—ever to meet the brief with brevity, the direct with plainness.

这是我的方式——这一直是我的方式，本能地——永远以简洁的方式满足简短的要求，以简单的方式满足直接的要求。

Quirrell raised his hand to perform a deadly curse, but Harry, by instinct, reached up and grabbed Quirrell's face — “AAAARGH! ”

奇洛举起手，准备念一个死咒，可是哈利出于本能，猛地抬手抓向奇洛的脸——“啊！啊！啊——！”

These animals know by instinct how to gouge holes in the ice fields and keep them continually open; they go to these holes to breathe.

这些动物天赋有本能在这冰场中挖掘洞穴，老是让洞门敞开，它们可以到洞口来呼吸。

Yet these people slander whatever they do not understand, and the very things they do understand by instinct—as irrational animals do—will destroy them.

但这些人毁谤他们所不知道的。他们本性所知道的事与那没有灵性的畜类一样，在这事上竟败坏了自己。

Think this over, for as a woman I am liable to be mistaken on such points which my sex judges only by instinct and sentiment.

想一想，作为一个女人， 我很容易在我的性别仅凭本能和情感判断的这些问题上犯错。

She was gratified: there it stood, a little carton, on the table when we entered the dining-room.  She appeared to know it by instinct.

她很满意：当我们走进餐厅时，桌子上放着一个小纸盒。她似乎本能地知道这一点。