“直觉”英文怎么说

时间:2008-12-19 00:07:03

(单词翻译:单击)

一说到“直觉”,许多人可能马上会想到instinct,比如 act on instinct 就是“凭直觉行动”。除了instinct,英语中还有别的常用词来表达直觉。

直觉很难解释清楚,似乎是天生的一种本能,是发自内心的一种惯性。因此英文中还常用gut一词来表示直觉。Gut1 这个词本身表示“内脏”,在俚语中引申为“内心的感觉”,比如:She felt in her gut that he was guilty. 她从心底知道他是有罪的。它又可用作形容词,在俚语中的意思就是“直觉的”,比如:I have a gut feeling that the country needs the support of all its people if we are not to fail.我深深觉得,如果我们的国家不想失败的话需要得到全民的支持。

不过,若将have guts2 理解成“有直觉”就错了,gut的复数形式不再表示直觉。用在非正式场合中,have guts表示“有勇气做某事”,例如:I don’t believe he has the guts! 我可不相信他有这么大勇气!

直觉还可以用hunch来表示,例如:I have a hunch3 that he didn’t really want to eat. 我有种直觉,他其实不想吃东西。Play one’s hunch 就是“跟着感觉走”的意思,比如:He did not know what they were up to, and decided4 to play his hunch. 他不知道他们想干什么,于是决定凭直觉行事了。

还有一个词也可以用来表示“直觉”,就是intuition,表示“the act or faculty5 of knowing or sensing without the use of rational processes; immediate6 cognition.直觉”,比如:And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. 最重要的是要有勇气遵从你的内心和直觉。


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1 gut MezzP     
n.[pl.]胆量;内脏;adj.本能的;vt.取出内脏
参考例句:
  • It is not always necessary to gut the fish prior to freezing.冷冻鱼之前并不总是需要先把内脏掏空。
  • My immediate gut feeling was to refuse.我本能的直接反应是拒绝。
2 guts Yraziv     
v.狼吞虎咽,贪婪地吃,飞碟游戏(比赛双方每组5人,相距15码,互相掷接飞碟);毁坏(建筑物等)的内部( gut的第三人称单数 );取出…的内脏n.勇气( gut的名词复数 );内脏;消化道的下段;肠
参考例句:
  • I'll only cook fish if the guts have been removed. 鱼若已收拾干净,我只需烧一下即可。
  • Barbara hasn't got the guts to leave her mother. 巴巴拉没有勇气离开她妈妈。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 hunch CdVzZ     
n.预感,直觉
参考例句:
  • I have a hunch that he didn't really want to go.我有这么一种感觉,他并不真正想去。
  • I had a hunch that Susan and I would work well together.我有预感和苏珊共事会很融洽。
4 decided lvqzZd     
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
参考例句:
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
5 faculty HhkzK     
n.才能;学院,系;(学院或系的)全体教学人员
参考例句:
  • He has a great faculty for learning foreign languages.他有学习外语的天赋。
  • He has the faculty of saying the right thing at the right time.他有在恰当的时候说恰当的话的才智。
6 immediate aapxh     
adj.立即的;直接的,最接近的;紧靠的
参考例句:
  • His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
  • We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。

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