1.TTAa machine that flies a plane by itself without the need for a pilot 〔飞机上的〕自动驾驶仪
2on automatic pilotdoing 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。
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on automatic pilot• I wasn't really asleep - I was just kind of running on automatic pilot.• TommyBlue was on automatic pilot.• I was on automatic pilot, doing what I do best.
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automatic pilot• If she could get to Tottenham Court Road tubestation, 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 headymixture 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.