英:[ni: dʒə:k]
美:[ni dʒɚk]
英:[ni: dʒə:k]
美:[ni dʒɚk]
膝反射;膝跳;
adjective
readily predictable : automaticalso, disapproving: reacting in a readily predictable way The man was such a bleeding-heart knee-jerk liberal that you could predict the rest of the column after reading the first sentence. —Andrew M. Greeley
knee-jerk reactions
noun
an involuntary forward kick produced by a light blow on the tendon below the patella
adjective
readily predictable : automaticalso, disapproving: reacting in a readily predictable way The man was such a bleeding-heart knee-jerk liberal that you could predict the rest of the column after reading the first sentence. —Andrew M. Greeley
knee-jerk reactions
noun
an involuntary forward kick produced by a light blow on the tendon below the patella
膝跳反射
The first known use of knee-jerk was in 1849
knee-jerk1 of 2adjective
readily predictable : automatic
a knee-jerk reaction to the proposal
knee jerk2 of 2noun
an involuntary forward kick produced by a light blow on the tendon below the kneecap
knee jerknoun
an involuntary forward jerk or kick produced by a light blow or sudden strain upon the patellar tendon of the knee that causes a reflex contraction of the quadriceps muscle called alsopatellar reflex
1 A contempt for knee - jerk French anti - Americanism also unites the two men.
对法国当下机械的 反 美主义的蔑视也使得这两位大人物走在了一起.
2 You will have to overcome many unhealthy cravings and knee - jerk reactions.
你必须克服许多不健康的渴望和莽撞的态度.
3 Instead of taking the knee jerk reaction of picking up your toys and going home.
4 a colleague known for her knee-jerk rejection of any proposal that she didn't originate
5 My knee-jerk reaction was to be a curmudgeon and say all of them except high school.
6 One of the most common knee jerk reactions is to move assets to cash.
7 And the hasty, knee-jerk responses weren’t particularly kind to his singing voice, which has—shocker!—evolved a tad after 25 years of touring, aging, and creative re-centering.
8 Sometimes this knee jerk reaction takes on absurd and macabre dimensions, as when a recent New York Times article by reporter Brian M. Rosenthal on the New York City taxi-medallion system laid the blame for a rash of suicides on the shoulders of ‘predatory’ lenders.
9 Of course that kind of knee - jerk reaction could produce a lot of false alarms.
当然,这种膝跳反射似的反应也会带来很多虚假的警报.
10 Johnson said the bills are knee-jerk reactions to community outrage, target good actors at the expense of bad ones, and don't adequately address the real source of the fraud, which was that licensed behavioral health treatment centers were overbilling Medicaid.
11 The thing that keeps you from just acting out on your initial knee jerk reaction and from just acting impulsively.
12 Paul had 11 assists, but instantly, the knee jerk reaction is Paul won’t be a scoring factor with Durant on the team.
13 The knee jerk is a typical respondent.
膝反射是一种典型反射.
14 It was a knee-jerk reaction on her part.
这是她未加思索做出的反应。
15 The flaw of modern economics is its knee - jerk response to economic weakness : loosening the money supply.
现代经济学错就错在,它对经济疲软有一种不经大脑的膝跳反应——放松银根.
16 Is a knee jerk not voluntary?
膝反射是不自主的 吗 ?
17 Typically, when an athlete or coach lashes out at a reporter in a high-exposure setting like this, the knee-jerk reaction on social media is to attack the reporter.
18 Our legislators need to know how to take a realistic approach to budgeting and funding, not a knee-jerk response to a report on a single topic.
19 Simple reflexes include sucking, swallowing, Blinking, scratching, and the knee jerk.
简单的反射包括吮吸 、 吞咽 、 眨眼 、 抓痒和膝盖痉挛.
20 But debate has raged over the effectiveness of the emergency measures that some described as a knee-jerk response to complex social issues.
1 膝反射