knee-jerk
英 [ˈniː dʒɜːk]
美 [ˈniː dʒɜːrk]
adj. 本能地做出的; 未经思考做出的
牛津词典
adj.
- 本能地做出的；未经思考做出的
produced automatically, without any serious thought- It was a knee-jerk reaction on her part.
这是她未加思索做出的反应。
- It was a knee-jerk reaction on her part.
柯林斯词典
- ADJ 未经思考作出的；依靠本能作出的
If you call someone's response to a question or situation aknee-jerkreaction, you mean that they react in a very predictable way, without thinking.- The knee-jerk reaction to this is to call for proper security in all hospitals.
对此类状况的第一反应会是要求所有医院都采取适当的安全措施。
- The knee-jerk reaction to this is to call for proper security in all hospitals.
双语例句
- In some cases this knee-jerk nastiness will help drive companies to bankruptcy, destroy jobs and damage the economy and society-while the banks will not even get much of their money back.
在某些情况下，这种动辄翻脸不认人的表现会推动公司破产、员工失业、损害经济和社会而银行也收不回很多资金。 - It was a knee-jerk reaction on her part.
这是她未加思索作出的反应。 - Amnesty called it a a knee-jerk reaction which does not get at the heart of the problem.
国际特赦说，这种本能反应，并未触及问题的实质。 - Their remarks could trigger knee-jerk declines in the euro and the yen.
他们的评论将会引发欧元和日元的膝跳反应。 - 4: In the past, my friends called me a knee-jerk liberal.
这人说：过去，我的朋友们叫我盲目的自由派。 - Above all, Baru believes India must jettison the knee-jerk defensiveness that characterises its relations with trading partners and foreign investors, a manifestation of what he calls its East India Company syndrome.
首先，巴鲁相信，印度必须抛弃与贸易伙伴和外国投资者关系中特有的下意识防御心态。巴鲁将这种表现称为东印度公司综合症。 - Large-cap stocks led the rally Wednesday as a knee-jerk reaction to the rise of their H-share counterparts.
周三，作为对于H股同类股票上升的正常反应，大盘股主导了这次止跌。 - We don't want to make knee-jerk changes, we want to be thoughtful about it, he says.
我们不想进行条件反射式的改动，在这个问题上，我们希望做到深思熟虑，他表示。 - The net result will probably be less volatility after an initial knee-jerk reaction and some relief in markets that China has actually gone ahead with the move after so much speculation, he wrote in a report.
他在报告中写道：在最初的浮躁反应之后，最后结果可能是相对较低的波动性。在超多投机行为后，已在事实上接受了该举措的中国市场会有所缓和。 - Is Mr monks merely offering a wholly predictable, knee-jerk, lefty rant? I do not think so.
蒙克斯仅是作了一次完全可预知的、机械的、左翼分子的激昂演说吗？我并不这么认为。