单词 | brain |
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音标 | 英[breɪn] 美[bren] |
解释 | n.脑;智慧;聪明的人;(群体中)最聪明的人;vt.打破…的脑袋;打…的头部; |
例句 | N-COUNT 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. 例:Her father died of a brain tumour.她父亲死于脑瘤。 N-COUNT 头脑;智力 Your brain is your mind and the way that you think. 例: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。 例:Stretch your brain with this puzzle.用这个智力游戏锻炼你的思维能力。 N-COUNT 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. 例:They were not the only ones to have brains and ambition...并不是只有他们聪明、有志向。 例:I had a good brain and the teachers liked me.我很聪明,老师们都喜欢我。 N-COUNT 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. 例:Mr White was the brains behind the scheme...怀特先生是该项计划的幕后策划者。 例: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。 VERB 猛击…的头部 To brain someone means to hit them forcefully on the head. 例:He had threatened to brain him then and there.他当时就威胁要打爆他的脑袋。 PHRASE 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. 例: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。 PHRASE (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. 例: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。 例:He blew his brains out with a shotgun.他用一支猎枪射中了他的脑袋。 PHRASE 一直想着;对…念念不忘 If someone has something on the brain, they keep thinking about it. 例: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。 PHRASE 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. 例: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? |
变形 | third:brains~done:brained~pl:brains~ing:braining~past:brained~ |
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