instinct for

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His instinct for rational economics has turned him from a protectionist into a champion of free trade.
他对理性经济学的直觉使他从一个（贸易）保护主义者转变为自由贸易的拥护者。
You are surrounded by millions of people who share your frustrations and share your instinct for justice and rationality.
你周围数百万的人分享着你的种种沮丧感，他们和你一样有对正义和理性的本能渴求。
In 1907, he made a photograph of two ladies in dazzling white dresses getting into a carriage at the Longchamp racetrack—an early signal that he had an instinct for couture.
1907年，他拍摄的一张照片中显示着两个身着炽白色长裙的女士在朗香跑道上上马车的场景，这可以说是他生来就有服装设计天分的早期征兆。

And what Darwin is claiming here, and it's a controversial and interesting claim, is that language is special in that there's some sort of propensity or capacity or instinct for language unlike the other examples he gives.
达尔文在此所表达的观点,极具争议而又非常有趣,这个观点认为,语言之所以特殊,是因为总有某些倾向,能力或本能,使得语言与他所举的其他例子有所不同
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Yet clearly, events have only strengthened your natural instinct for tolerance and mutual respect.
UN: Secretary-General
Mr O'Meally's sense of category is as finely tuned as his instinct for good singing.
ECONOMIST: Jazz singers
But I am very wary of my own instinct for retribution, and of yours.
FORBES: The Failure of the American Prison System is a Failure of Justice