单词 | lizard brain |
释义 | > as lemmaslizard brain lizard brain n. the part of the human brain to which primitive, non-rational, or self-interested behaviour is attributed.With reference to such behaviours being considered characteristic of reptiles: see reptilian brain n. at reptilian adj. and n. Compounds and cf. reptile brain n. at reptile n.1 Compounds 3. ΚΠ 1979 J. Jerome Thirty Years Poetry 305 In swamps of sleep my lizard brain arises, Coldbloodedly pursuing meal or mate, Spreads blooming throat or flicks tongue for a fly. 1997 Esquire May 63 That's good, that's his lizard-brain telling him how to survive. 2019 Observer (Univ. Notre Dame) (Nexis) 14 Feb. 1 It [sc. boxing] activates the lizard brain; the fight-or-flight response, primal fear. < as lemmas |
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