reflex
reflex 英 [ˈri:fleks] 美 [ˈriˌflɛks]
名词复数:reflexes
- A reflex is an action your body does without your thinking about it, like sneezing, or jumping a little when you dream you’re falling. If you suddenly catch a ball before it crashes into a window, you have quick reflexes.
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1. A law should be a reflex of the will of the people.
法律应该是人民意志的反映。
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2. Sure, that sounds easy enough, but you have to become the master of that reflex.
当然，这听起来容易，但你必须能够控制自己的反射。
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3. Then he hears someone hang up at the other end and he hangs up, too, almost by reflex.
然后他听到对方将电话挂上，他也挂了电话，几乎就像条件反射似的。
- reflex (n.) c. 1500, "reflection of light," from verb reflex meaning "refract, deflect" (late 14c.), from Late Latin reflexus "a bending back," noun use of past participle of reflectere (see reflection). Meaning "involuntary nerve stimulation" first recorded 1877, from reflex action (1833).
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