| 单词 | on automatic pilot |
| 释义 | > as lemmason automatic pilot 3. figurative. The state of functioning without active or conscious intervention or control, esp. as a result of habit or routine; the ability to do this. Chiefly in on automatic pilot. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > [noun] > independent or spontaneous spontaneousnessa1649 auturgy1651 automatism1794 automatic pilot1955 1955 Chicago Sunday Tribune 30 Jan. (Mag.) 35/1 Accept the invitations to social gatherings... Before you know it, you will be socially ‘off the ground’, with your vacation fun on ‘automatic pilot’. 1975 Newsweek (Nexis) 1 Sept. (Arts section) 61 As a Royal Canadian mountie, Segal has his talent on automatic pilot. 1981 Cook's Mag. Jan. (verso front cover) (advt.) Once you insert the meat probe, the oven is on ‘automatic pilot’. 1993 M. Atwood Robber Bride ix. 63 She's having the grated carrot and cottage cheese salad, a wise choice; not that she can remember having ordered it, but sometimes it's useful to have an automatic pilot like that, to take care of the routines. 2001 N.Y. Times 5 June b7/2 The reader's suspicions that the talented Mr. Lodge has written this book on automatic pilot only grow in the novel's final pages, which feature a host of highly improbable developments. < as lemmas |
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