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/bre͟ɪn/
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]脑;大脑 Your brain is the organ inside your head that controls your body's activities and enables you to think and to feel things such as heat and pain.
  • Her father died of a brain tumour.

    她父亲死于脑瘤。

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    [N-COUNT 可数名词]头脑;智力 Your brain is your mind and the way that you think.
      [usu poss N]
  • Once you stop using your brain you soon go stale...

    一旦停止用脑,人很快就会变得迟钝。

  • Stretch your brain with this puzzle.

    用这个智力游戏锻炼你的思维能力。

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    [N-COUNT 可数名词]智力;智慧;头脑 If someone has brains or a good brain, they have the ability to learn and understand things quickly, to solve problems, and to make good decisions.
  • They were not the only ones to have brains and ambition...

    并不是只有他们聪明、有志向。

  • I had a good brain and the teachers liked me.

    我很聪明,老师们都喜欢我。

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    [N-COUNT 可数名词]智囊;出谋划策者 If someone is the brains behind an idea or an organization, he or she had that idea or makes the important decisions about how that organization is managed.
      [usu pl]
      [INFORMAL 非正式]
  • Mr White was the brains behind the scheme...

    怀特先生是该项计划的幕后策划者。

  • Some investigators regarded her as the brains of the gang.

    一些调查员认为她是该团伙的决策者。

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    [VERB 动词]猛击…的头部 To brain someone means to hit them forcefully on the head.
      [V n]
      [INFORMAL 非正式]
  • He had threatened to brain him then and there.

    他当时就威胁要打爆他的脑袋。

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    [PHRASE 短语]把…的脑袋打伤;把…脑袋打开花 To beat someone's brains out or bash their brains in means to hit their head very hard, so that they are badly injured or killed.
      [V inflects]
      [INFORMAL 非正式]
  • They stood over him with clubs raised as if to beat his brains out.

    他们举着棍子监视着他,好像要揍扁他的脑袋。

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    [PHRASE 短语](用枪)把…的脑袋打开花;射中…的头部 To blow someone's brains out means to shoot them in the head, killing them.
      [V inflects]
      [INFORMAL 非正式]
  • Give me all your money or I'll blow your brains out...

    把你所有的钱都给我,否则我就一枪把你的脑袋打开花。

  • He blew his brains out with a shotgun.

    他用一支猎枪射中了他的脑袋。

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    [PHRASE 短语]一直想着;对…念念不忘 If someone has something on the brain, they keep thinking about it.
      [V inflects]
      [INFORMAL 非正式]
  • You've had chess on the brain since you were little.

    你从很小的时候就对下棋产生了浓厚兴趣。

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    [PHRASE 短语]请教;讨教 If you pick someone's brains, you ask them to help you with a problem because they know more about the subject than you.
      [V inflects]
      [INFORMAL 非正式]
  • Why should a successful company allow another firm to pick its brains?

    为什么一个成功的企业就得允许别的公司来讨教呢?

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    to rack your brains→see:
    rack

    Oxford
    brain / breɪn ; NAmE breɪn /
    noun
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    verb
    brain brains brained braining
    noun in head 1 [countable ] the organ inside the head that controls movement, thought, memory and feeling damage to the brain 脑部损伤 brain cells 脑细胞 She died of a brain tumour. 她死于脑瘤。 a device to measure brain activity during sleep 检测睡眠时脑部活动的仪器 food 食物 2 brains [plural ] the brainof an animal, eaten as food (供食用的)动物脑髓 sheep's brains 羊脑 intelligence 智力 3 [uncountable ,  countable ,  usually plural ] the ability to learn quickly and think about things in a logical and intelligent way 智力;脑力;逻辑思维能力 It doesn't take much brain to work out that both stories can't be true. 不必费多大脑筋就知道,两种说法都不可能是真的。 Teachers spotted that he had a good brain at an early age. 老师们发现他小时候就很聪颖。 You need brains as well as brawn (= intelligence as well as strength)to do this job. 这项工作既需要脑力又需要体力。 see also
    no-brainer
    intelligent person 聪明人 4 [countable ,  usually plural ] ( informal) an intelligent person 聪明的人;有智慧的人 one of the best scientific brains in the country 国家最优秀的科技人才之一 5 the brains [singular ] the most intelligent person in a particular group; the person who is responsible for thinking of and organizing sth (群体中)最聪明的人;策划组织者 He's always been the brains of the family. 这家人数他聪明。 The band's drummer is the brains behindtheir latest venture. 这位乐队鼓手是他们最近一次活动的策划人。 IDIOM have sth on the brain ( informal) to think about sth all the time, especially in a way that is annoying 某事萦绕心头;过分热衷 He has sex on the brain. 他脑子里想的全是性。 more at
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    verb brainsb/sth/yourself ( informal) to kill a person or an animal by hitting them very hard on the head 猛击…的脑袋致死 I nearly brained myself on that low beam. 那根低横梁差点儿把我撞死。 brain / breɪn ; NAmE breɪn /
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    brain1 noun
    brain2 verb
    brainbrain1 /breɪn/ ●●● S2 W2 noun
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    1brain (1)organ [countable] the organ inside your head that controls how you think, feel, and move:  Messages from the brain are carried by the central nervous system. the chemistry of the brain the human brainthe right/left hemisphere of the brain (=the right or left side of the brain) Emotional responses are a function of the right hemisphere of the brain. She died of a brain tumour.brain tissue/cell2intelligence [countable usually plural, uncountable] the ability to think clearly and learn quickly:  If you had any brains, you’d know what I meant. The job requires brains. Something’s addled your brains (=made you confused). Come on, use your brain, John.3person [countable usually plural] informal someone who is intelligent, with good ideas and useful skills:  Some of our best brains are leaving the country to work in the US.
    brain drain
    4food [uncountable] (also brains [plural]) the brain of an animal, used as food5have something on the brain informal to be always thinking about something:  I’ve got that song on the brain today.6be the brains behind/of something to be the person who thought of and developed a particular plan, system, or organization, especially a successful one:  Danny’s definitely the brains of the project.7brain dead a)in a state where your brain has stopped working properly, even though your heart may still be beating b) informal in a state in which you seem stupid or uninteresting, especially because you live a boring life or are very tired8something is not brain surgery informal used to say that something is not difficult to do
    bird-brain
    , hare-brained
    , → beat your brains out
    at beat1(22)
    , → pick somebody’s brains
    at pick1(7)
    , → rack your brain(s)
    at rack2(2)
    COLLOCATIONS– Meaning 2verbshave brains· You should have more brains than to smoke.use your brain· It’s easy if you just use your brain.rack your brains (=try very hard to think of something)· If we all rack our brains we should come up with some ideas.pick somebody’s brains (=ask someone for ideas)· I thought I’d pick Greg’s brains about what to take with us.it takes/requires brains to do something· It takes brains to think of a plan like that.something addles your brain (=makes you unable to think clearly)· The alcohol had addled his brain.adjectivesa good/quick brain· It was obvious that Ann had a good brain.
    brain1 noun
    brain2 verb
    brainbrain2 verb [transitive] informal
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    to hit someone very hard on the head – used humorously:  I wanted to brain him.
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