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Head is used in a large number of expressions which are explained under other words in the dictionary. For example, the expression ‘off the top of your head’ is explained at‘top’. head 可以用于很多短语中，这些短语的释义列在本词典中其他词条下。例如，短语 off the top of your head 的释义就列在词条 top 之下。 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]（人的）头，头部 Your head is the top part of your body, which has your eyes, mouth, and brain in it. 2 [N-COUNT 可数名词]头脑；心智；才智 You can use head to refer to your mind and your mental abilities. 3 [N-SING 单数名词]（队伍中的）领头位置；队首；排头 The head of a line of people or vehicles is the front of it, or the first person or vehicle in the line. 4 [VERB 动词]排在（队列等）的最前面 If someone or something heads a line or procession, they are at the front of it. The parson, heading the procession, had just turned right towards the churchyard. 走在行进队伍最前面的教区牧师刚刚向右转弯，朝着教堂墓地走去。
5 [VERB 动词]居…之首；在…名列首位 If something heads a list or group, it is at the top of it. Running a business heads the list of ambitions among the 1,000 people interviewed by Good Housekeeping magazine. 在《好管家》杂志采访过的1,000人中，创立自己的公司在理想抱负中列在首位。
6 [N-SING 单数名词]顶部；上端 The head of something is the highest or top part of it. 7 [N-COUNT 可数名词]（细长物体的）头部，顶端 The head of something long and thin is the end which is wider than or a different shape from the rest, and which is often considered to be the most important part. 8 [N-COUNT 可数名词]（中小学的）校长 The head of a school is the teacher who is in charge. 9 [N-COUNT 可数名词]（公司、组织的）负责人，领导人，首脑，长，主任 The head of a company or organization is the person in charge of it and in charge of the people in it. 10 [VERB 动词]掌管；主管；负责 If you head a department, company, or organization, you are the person in charge of it. ...Michael Williams, who heads the department's Office of Civil Rights. 负责该部民权处的迈克尔·威廉斯 ...the ruling Socialist Party, headed by Dr Franz Vranitzky. 由弗朗兹·弗拉尼兹基博士领导的执政社会党
11 [N-COUNT 可数名词]脓头 The head of an infected spot is its white or yellow centre. 12 [N-COUNT 可数名词]（啤酒表层的）泡沫；酒头 The head on a glass of beer is the layer of small bubbles that form on the top of the beer. 13 [N-PLURAL 复数名词]（表示牲畜的数目）头 You can use head to say how many animals of a particular type a farmer has. For example, if they have fifty head of cattle, they have fifty cows. 14 [N-COUNT 可数名词]头痛 If you have a bad head, you have a headache. [usu sing] [BRIT INFORMAL 英] 15 [ADV 副词]（硬币的）有人头像的一面，正面 If you toss a coin and it comes down heads, you can see the side of the coin which has a picture of a head on it. 'We might toss up for it,' suggested Ted. 'If it's heads, then we'll talk.'... “我们可以掷硬币来决定。”特德建议道，“如果是正面，我们就谈谈。” Heads or tails? 你猜是正面还是反面？
16 [VERB 动词]朝着（某一地点）行进（美国英语中亦作 are headed） If you are heading for a particular place, you are going towards that place. In American English, you can also say that you are headed for a particular place. [V for n] [V adv/prep] [V-ed] He headed for the bus stop... 他朝着公共汽车站走去。 ...an Iraqi vessel heading for the port of Basra... 开往巴士拉港的一艘伊拉克船 It is not clear how many of them will be heading back to Saudi Arabia tomorrow... 还不清楚他们中间有多少人明天要回沙特阿拉伯。 She and her child boarded a plane headed to where her family lived... 她带着孩子登上了一架回家的飞机。 He could just as well have hitched a ride on a train or a truck headed west. 他还可能已经顺路搭上了西去的火车或卡车。
17 [VERB 动词]很可能要遭受，会招致（美国英语中亦作 is headed for） If something or someone is heading for a particular result, the situation they are in is developing in a way that makes that result very likely. In American English, you can also say that something or someone is headed for a particular result. The latest talks aimed at ending the civil war appear to be heading for deadlock... 为结束内战而进行的最新谈判好像要陷入僵局。 He said anyone giving orders without respecting the wishes of his people is heading for disaster... 他说任何不尊重人民意愿而发号施令的人都注定会走向灭亡。 The centuries-old ritual seems headed for extinction. 延续了几个世纪的仪式似乎要面临消亡。
18 [VERB 动词]标题为 If a piece of writing is headed a particular title, it has that title written at the beginning of it. [be V-ed quote] [usu passive] 19 [VERB 动词]（足球比赛中）用头顶（球） If you head a ball in football, you hit it with your head in order to make it go in a particular direction. [V n prep/adv] [Also V n] 21 [PHRASE 短语]每人/人均 You use a head or per head after stating a cost or amount in order to indicate that that cost or amount is for each person in a particular group. This simple chicken dish costs less than £1 a head... 这道简单的鸡肉菜肴每人的花费还不到1英镑。 Ethiopia, for instance uses the equivalent of just twenty kilos of oil per head a year. 比如说，埃塞俄比亚每年的人均消费支出仅相当于20公斤的石油。
22 [PHRASE 短语]让人生气；让人沮丧 If something or someone does your head in, they make you angry or frustrated. [V and N inflect] [BRIT 英] [INFORMAL 非正式] 23 [PHRASE 短语]从头到脚；全身 From head to foot means all over your body. [oft be V-ed PHR] [emphasis] 24 [PHRASE 短语]擅长 If you have a head for something, you can deal with it easily. For example, if you have a head for figures, you can do arithmetic easily, and if you have a head for heights, you can climb to a great height without feeling afraid. 25 [PHRASE 短语]充分理解并接受；打定（主意） If you get a fact or idea into your head, you suddenly realize or think that it is true and you usually do not change your opinion about it. 26 [PHRASE 短语]终于明白 If you say that someone has got something into their head, you mean that they have finally understood or accepted it, and you are usually criticizing them because it has taken them a long time to do this. 27 [PHRASE 短语]让…自由行动；对…不加约束 If you give someone their head, you allow them to do what they want to do, without trying to advise or stop them. 28 [PHRASE 短语]（酒）使人感到醉，上头 If alcoholic drink goes to your head, it makes you feel drunk. 29 [PHRASE 短语]（赞扬或成功）冲昏…的头脑，使…骄傲自满 If you say that something such as praise or success goes to someone's head, you are criticizing them because you think that it makes them too proud or confident. [V and N inflect] [disapproval] 30 [PHRASE 短语]深陷情网 If you are head over heels or head over heels in love, you are very much in love. 31 [PHRASE 短语]保持镇静/张皇失措 If you keep your head, you remain calm in a difficult situation. If you lose your head, you panic or do not remain calm in a difficult situation. 32 [PHRASE 短语]停止；结束 If you knock something on the head, you stop it. [V inflects] [BRIT 英] [INFORMAL 非正式] 33 [PHRASE 短语]（表示强调）大笑/大声尖叫 Phrases such as laugh your head off and scream your head off can be used to emphasize that someone is laughing or screaming a lot or very loudly. 34 [PHRASE 短语]（吸毒后）昏头昏脑的，神志不清的 If you say that someone is off their head, you mean that they have taken so many drugs that they do not know what they are doing. [N inflects] [mainly BRIT 主英] [INFORMAL 非正式] 35 [PHRASE 短语]昏了头的；愚蠢的 If you say that someone is off their head, you think that their ideas or behaviour are very strange, foolish, or dangerous. [N inflects] [disapproval] [mainly BRIT 主英] [INFORMAL 非正式] 36 [PHRASE 短语]倒过来想；从全新的角度理解 If you stand an idea or argument on its head or turn it on its head, you think about it or treat it in a completely new and different way. 37 [PHRASE 短语]超过…的理解力 If something such as an idea, joke, or comment goes over someone's head, it is too difficult for them to understand. 38 [PHRASE 短语]未与…商量地；(尤指)越级 If someone does something over another person's head, they do it without asking them or discussing it with them, especially when they should do so because the other person is in a position of authority. 39 [PHRASE 短语]（不好的事情）再次出现，重新抬头 If you say that something unpleasant or embarrassing rears its ugly head or raises its ugly head, you mean that it occurs, often after not occurring for some time. 40 [PHRASE 短语]倒立；竖蜻蜓 If you stand on your head, you balance upside down with the top of your head and your hands on the ground. 41 [PHRASE 短语]理解；弄明白 If you say that you cannot make head nor tail of something or you cannot make head or tail of it, you are emphasizing that you cannot understand it at all. [usu with brd-neg] [INFORMAL 非正式] 42 [PHRASE 短语]突然决定（做某事，尤指古怪或愚蠢的事）；心血来潮 If somebody takes it into their head to do something, especially something strange or foolish, they suddenly decide to do it. 43 [PHRASE 短语]到了危急关头；到达关键点 If a problem or disagreement comes to a head or is brought to a head, it becomes so bad that something must be done about it. 44 [PHRASE 短语]严厉训斥 If you bang peoples' heads together or knock their heads together, you tell them off severely for doing something wrong or for not doing something they were asked to do. [V inflects] [mainly BRIT 主英] 45 [PHRASE 短语]集体商讨；集思广益 If two or more people put their heads together, they talk about a problem they have and try to solve it. 46 [PHRASE 短语]（尤指在生意方面）勉强逃脱困境 If you keep y |