Since the instinctive reactions of animals are as hereditary as their morphological character, a discussion of experiments on the physico- chemical character of the instinctive reactions of animals should not be entirely omitted from this sketch. It is obvious that such experiments must begin with the simplest type of instincts, if they are expected to lead to any results; and it is also obvious that only such animals must be selected for this purpose, the reactions of which are not complicated by associative memory, or, as it may preferably be termed, associative hysteresis.英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
"In fact, they have been able to reclassify the whole animal kingdom on this basis, and have made some most surprising additions to our knowledge of evolution. Now I don't propose to bore you with the details of the tests, but one of the things they showed was that the blood of a certain branch of the human race gives a reaction much like the blood of a certain group of monkeys, the chimpanzees, while the blood of another branch gives a reaction like that of the gorilla. Of course there's lots more to it, but this is all that need concern us now.英文原著 · 《The Silent Bullet》
A strange reaction was already beginning to set in,--a reaction perfectly illogic, and yet intelligible, and by no means rare under similar circumstances.英文原著 · 《Within an Inch of His Life》
With a conscious irony, maybe, he buried his pistols beneath the domestic hearth, jammed his dark lantern into the press, where he kept his game-cocks, and determined to make an inextricable jumble of his career. Drink is sometimes a sufficient reaction against the orderliness of a successful life.英文原著 · 《A Book of Scoundrels》
Nelly's reaction to the immunosuppressants suggests she'll have an even worse reaction to the antibodies.美剧 · 《The Good Doctor》
Just a typical male reaction to a couple of hot cougars like us.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》