And that's the kind of instinct I'd like you to get into thinking about. So the answer here is no.

所以答案是否定的,好的，那我们能在线性时间内排序么？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

As humans I think our instinct is to want more, you know, not be positive and...

作为人类我觉得我们的直觉是追求更多东西，你知道，不怎么积极，而且……

我的理想是 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

I'm indebted here to Steven Pinker's excellent book The Language Instinct which provides, I think, a superb discussion of these phenomena.

非常感谢史蒂芬·平克写了这本精彩的,《语言本能》一书,我认为该书对这些现象进行了极好的讨论

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

We asked students as we will this year to describe themselves based on gut instinct early on, do you consider yourselves among those less comfortable with computers or just the mere idea of being in this class?

我们给学生提过这样一个要求，以后也还会再提这个要求,那就是凭直觉描述一下自己，你们是否认为自己不擅长电脑,还是只是单纯地想来上这门课？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The answer lies in "a universal attribute of instinct and perhaps of organic life in general," that "an instinct is an urge inherent in organic life to restore an earlier state of things."

答案就在本能,或者生命机体中“,他说：，“本能就是生命体与生俱来的,想要回到最初状态的驱动力“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It is a reason or speech, not instinct, that makes us political.

是理法或辩论能力而非本能，使我们具有政治性。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

What is your instinct?

你的本能是什么

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Yeah. Log. It's a good think, but why do you think it's log? Ah-ha. It's not a bad instinct, the length is getting shorter each time, but what's one of the characteristics of a log algorithm? It drops in half each time.

对了，对数，这是个好想法,但是你们为什么认为是对数呢？,啊哈，这样的本能不错，每次长度都会缩小些,但是对数算法的特性是什么。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

So the instinct of many cabinet officers and other senior officials is "Boy, when we take this to the president, let's see if we can reach some sort of 4 compromise, you know, you say 2, I say 4, let's just go tell the president 3 that we've agreed on 3."

所以许多内阁官员,还有其他高层的领导人的本能都是，我们把这个给总统处理之前，先看看我们能不能各自让步,比如你说2，我说，我们就告诉总统,我们都同意“

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

And what Darwin is claiming here, and it's a controversial and interesting claim, is that language is special in that there's some sort of propensity or capacity or instinct for language unlike the other examples he gives.

达尔文在此所表达的观点,极具争议而又非常有趣,这个观点认为,语言之所以特殊,是因为总有某些倾向,能力或本能,使得语言与他所举的其他例子有所不同

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So, for these reasons and probably for hundred more that I haven't thought of, we can understand why these people go against the natural instinct of staying put and go adventuring out, seeking a new home someplace in the Mediterranean.

那么综上所述,当然还有很多因素我们没有涉及到,我们能够明白为什么这些人,不顾人类本性,执意远征,在地中海寻找新的家园

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

What's your instinct?

你的本能是什么

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

He says man is political not because we have some biological impulse or instinct that drives us to participate in politics, but, he says, because we are possessed of the power of speech.

他说人类具有政治性,但不是因为,我们拥有某种生物冲动或本能,驱使我们参与政治，而是因为我们掌握了,辩论的能力。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选