automatic pilot
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++ˌautomatic ˈpilot noun [countable, uncountable] 1. TTAa machine that flies a plane by itself without the need for a pilot 〔飞机上的〕自动驾驶仪2 on automatic pilot doing something without thinking about it, especially because you have done it many times before 不假思索地，习惯性地 Moving on automatic pilot, she tidied the room. 她习惯性地整理起房间来。
Examples from the Corpus
automatic pilot• If she could get to Tottenham Court Road tube station, she could get home almost on automatic pilot.• I've been on automatic pilot for 25 years.• What others do on automatic pilot becomes a tiresome, anxious, effortful task.• I leapt out of bed and dressed on automatic pilot.• We fool ourselves by thinking we can go on automatic pilot, that we can survive by going through the motions.• By now I was talking and singing on automatic pilot whilst my heart and brain were thudding with a heady mixture of adrenalin.• I was on automatic pilot, doing what I do best.• She had been so immersed in her anger and indignation that she had been working on automatic pilot herself.ˌautomatic ˈpilot nounChineseSyllable
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automatic pilot
ˌautomatic ˈpilot
noun [uncountable and countable]
1. a machine that flies a plane by itself without the need for a pilot
2. on automatic pilot doing something without thinking about it, especially because you have done it many times before:
Moving on automatic pilot, she tidied the room.
ˌautomatic ˈpilot
noun [uncountable and countable]1. a machine that flies a plane by itself without the need for a pilot
2. on automatic pilot doing something without thinking about it, especially because you have done it many times before:
