| 单词 | reptile brain |
| 释义 | > as lemmasreptile brain reptile brain n. = reptilian brain n. at reptilian adj. and n. Compounds. ΚΠ 1964 P. W. Napear Diary 28 July in Brain Child: Mother's Diary (1974) i. Have to tell Doris and David W. the truth—that Stuart and the baby are learning to creep in cross-pattern. It's clued in somehow to the midbrain, the reptile brain still in us. 1973 P. Grosvenor & J. McMillan Brit. Genius xl. 277 In the past million years of evolution man has grown a neo-cortex, a thin layer of ‘civilized’ brain over the old animal brain. And beneath the old animal brain lies a reptile brain. 1997 M. Fabi Wyrm xv. 408 Structurally and functionally, the newer parts of our brains like the neocortex are like a covering over the older reptile brain underneath. 2006 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 17 Sept. 37 Somewhere in the reptile brain of voters, where gut rules, there are plenty of reasons to hedge one's bets. < as lemmas |
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