In trying to explain the Roman phenomenon, one would have to place great emphasis on this almost instinct for the territorial imperative.

在试图解释罗马现象时，人们必须着重强调这种对领土势力的本能。

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Aggression is a kind of innate survival mechanism, an instinct for self preservation, that allows animals to defend themselves from threats to their existence.

攻击性是一种天生的生存机制，一种自我保护的本能，使动物能够保护自己不受生存威胁。

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Horses have a well-developed instinct for fear.

马天性易受惊吓。

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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

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Yet clearly, events have only strengthened your natural instinct for tolerance and mutual respect.

UN: Secretary-General

Mr O'Meally's sense of category is as finely tuned as his instinct for good singing.

ECONOMIST: Jazz singers

But I am very wary of my own instinct for retribution, and of yours.

FORBES: The Failure of the American Prison System is a Failure of Justice