单词	knee-jerk
释义	knee-jerk /ˈnidʒəːk / adjective [attributive] 1(Of a response) automatic and unthinking: a knee-jerk reaction... 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. Jones accused the American authorities of a knee-jerk response to its corporate scandals and said it was symptomatic of a protectionist economy. So just be careful before you leap forward with a knee-jerk response demanding gun control. 1.1(Of a person) responding to situations in an automatic and unthinking way: knee-jerk radicals... You're all looking like a bunch of knee-jerk reactionaries. 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. noun A sudden involuntary reflex kick caused by a blow on the tendon just below the knee.Apart from involuntary knee-jerks, it's the mind that rules.... 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.
随便看	wrongfulness wrong-headed wrong-headedly wrong-headedness wrongly wrongness wrong'un wrot wrote wroth wrought wroughted wrought iron wrought-iron work wrought-off wrought up WRT w.r.t. wrung WRVS wry wrybill wryly wrymouth wryneck

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