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Definition of knee-jerk in English: knee-jerkadjectiveˈniːdʒəːkˈni ˈˌdʒərk 1attributive (of a response) automatic and unthinking. （反应）自动的，不假思索的；机械的 自动的反应。 Example sentencesExamples - This announcement seems to be more of a knee-jerk reaction than a considered response to a terrible problem.
- Jones accused the American authorities of a knee-jerk response to its corporate scandals and said it was symptomatic of a protectionist economy.
- Do you think that was a feminist knee-jerk reaction, or do you think they misinterpreted the book?
- Such events have prompted hasty - some say knee-jerk - responses by public officials.
- My initial instinct is to take her side, but that's fairly obviously just a knee-jerk response on my part.
- Such knee-jerk flag-waving is anathema to Banville, a writer who despises nationalism in all forms.
- There will be no knee-jerk reactions and I firmly believe we'll get ourselves out of this.
- So just be careful before you leap forward with a knee-jerk response demanding gun control.
- Deans emphasizes that future rape cases will be weighed individually; there will be no knee-jerk decision based on newspaper policies.
- It seems to happen often enough that knee-jerk reactions that involving banning things tend to have the opposite effect of what those calling for the ban expect.
- Such knee-jerk negativity is both premature and counterproductive.
- There will be no knee-jerk cut in interest rates when the Bank's monetary policy committee meets next month.
- There is always a danger of a knee-jerk reaction in these situations, and imposing lots of needless rules on companies going on perfectly well without them.
- This is no knee-jerk response to a tragedy; he has been campaigning on this topic for a long time.
- Everything he says about these issues is knee-jerk and over-bearing and made up of half-pieces of information he doesn't fully understand.
- Blogging, and any form of personal publishing, tends to be filled with a lot of reactionary and knee-jerk opinion.
- Let me respond to a few knee-jerk misconceptions.
- Until then I hope they don't rush into any knee-jerk decisions.
- It's just another knee-jerk reaction from sections of the media who need to fill endless hours of TV space and thousands of newspaper column inches.
- Mr Butler said a carbon tax was ‘a knee-jerk response to a global and complex problem’ and that a more sophisticated and appropriately costed solution would be necessary.
Synonyms unintentional, unintended, accidental, unthinking, unwitting, inadvertent, unpremeditated, unplanned - 1.1 (of a person) responding to situations in an automatic and unthinking way.
自动的反应。 Example sentencesExamples - You're all looking like a bunch of knee-jerk reactionaries.
- They still managed to produce a perfectly reasonable constitutional document that deserves far more respect than it has received from the knee-jerk critics here at home.
- It's not a bunch of left-wingers or knee-jerk liberals: we're talking about prosecutors, judges, the mainstream lawyer organization.
- People who think he isn't very smart are either knee-jerk liberals or not paying very close attention.
nounˈniːdʒəːkˈni ˈˌdʒərk A sudden involuntary reflex kick caused by a blow on the tendon just below the knee. 膝反射 Example sentencesExamples - Too often this country resorts to the knee-jerk in order to effect social change, maybe we just need to be a bit more inventive in the way we approach the problem.
- Apart from involuntary knee-jerks, it's the mind that rules.
Definition of knee-jerk in US English: knee-jerkadjectiveˈnē ˈˌjərkˈni ˈˌdʒərk 1attributive (of a response) automatic and unthinking. （反应）自动的，不假思索的；机械的 自动的反应。 Example sentencesExamples - It's just another knee-jerk reaction from sections of the media who need to fill endless hours of TV space and thousands of newspaper column inches.
- There will be no knee-jerk reactions and I firmly believe we'll get ourselves out of this.
- Let me respond to a few knee-jerk misconceptions.
- This announcement seems to be more of a knee-jerk reaction than a considered response to a terrible problem.
- Blogging, and any form of personal publishing, tends to be filled with a lot of reactionary and knee-jerk opinion.
- Everything he says about these issues is knee-jerk and over-bearing and made up of half-pieces of information he doesn't fully understand.
- Do you think that was a feminist knee-jerk reaction, or do you think they misinterpreted the book?
- There will be no knee-jerk cut in interest rates when the Bank's monetary policy committee meets next month.
- My initial instinct is to take her side, but that's fairly obviously just a knee-jerk response on my part.
- Such knee-jerk flag-waving is anathema to Banville, a writer who despises nationalism in all forms.
- Mr Butler said a carbon tax was ‘a knee-jerk response to a global and complex problem’ and that a more sophisticated and appropriately costed solution would be necessary.
- Deans emphasizes that future rape cases will be weighed individually; there will be no knee-jerk decision based on newspaper policies.
- Until then I hope they don't rush into any knee-jerk decisions.
- So just be careful before you leap forward with a knee-jerk response demanding gun control.
- Such knee-jerk negativity is both premature and counterproductive.
- This is no knee-jerk response to a tragedy; he has been campaigning on this topic for a long time.
- It seems to happen often enough that knee-jerk reactions that involving banning things tend to have the opposite effect of what those calling for the ban expect.
- Such events have prompted hasty - some say knee-jerk - responses by public officials.
- Jones accused the American authorities of a knee-jerk response to its corporate scandals and said it was symptomatic of a protectionist economy.
- There is always a danger of a knee-jerk reaction in these situations, and imposing lots of needless rules on companies going on perfectly well without them.
Synonyms unintentional, unintended, accidental, unthinking, unwitting, inadvertent, unpremeditated, unplanned - 1.1 (of a person) responding in an automatic and unthinking way.
（反应）自动的，不假思索的；机械的 自动的反应。 Example sentencesExamples - You're all looking like a bunch of knee-jerk reactionaries.
- It's not a bunch of left-wingers or knee-jerk liberals: we're talking about prosecutors, judges, the mainstream lawyer organization.
- People who think he isn't very smart are either knee-jerk liberals or not paying very close attention.
- They still managed to produce a perfectly reasonable constitutional document that deserves far more respect than it has received from the knee-jerk critics here at home.
nounˈnē ˈˌjərkˈni ˈˌdʒərk A sudden involuntary reflex kick caused by a blow on the tendon just below the knee. 膝反射 Example sentencesExamples - Too often this country resorts to the knee-jerk in order to effect social change, maybe we just need to be a bit more inventive in the way we approach the problem.
- Apart from involuntary knee-jerks, it's the mind that rules.
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