The insight is an intuitive one—threatening someone to convince him not to attack you is much more likely to work than threatening him in order to make him give up something he cares about.

这是一种非常直观的感受—与其威逼某人让他放弃他所在乎的东西，还不如威慑他让他不要攻击你，这似乎会是更有效的方法。

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Naturally, astrology is a master vehicle for intuitive perception and psychic insight.

很自然，占星术是直觉理解和精神洞察的主要工具。

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But it also has the knack of producing the right paper at the right time, which really grabs people's attention with some new or counter-intuitive insight.

ECONOMIST: European politics

His articles are sometimes pure comedy for its own sake, but often include counter-intuitive and searing insight.

FORBES: John Cheese's icon on Cracked.