He said that sleep was not a passive response to lack of stimulation but an active process, rather like an instinct.

他说睡眠并非由于缺乏刺激而做出的消极反应而更像是一种本能的积极反应。

youdao

If, like me, your first instinct on receiving such an invitation is to stay home, I would stick with that.

如果你接到邀请的第一个本能反应就是待在家里——就象我一样——我支持你。

youdao

Goalscorers like Michael just seem to have an instinct they are born with.

迈克尔天生就是这样的射手。

youdao

' I felt like I had an instinct.

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Finally, there's a supposedly low-cost full touchscreen device looking a little bit like a cross between a Cookie and an Instinct s30 that's running TouchWiz and features a 3 megapixel camera.

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The touch system on the Instinct is more like that on an ancient ATM than a cutting-edge gadget, even though it has a gimmicky feedback mechanism that gives you a tiny vibration-jolt when you press an icon.

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