一、详细释义:
n.
脑,大脑
例句:
The second scan revealed a brain tumor.
第二次扫描显示出一个脑瘤。
例句:
The largest brain possessed by any dinosaur weighed about a kilogram.
最大的恐龙脑子大约有一公斤重。
头脑,智慧,智力
例句:
Turn off the TV and read great books, they open doors in your brain.
关掉电视,阅读伟大的著作,它会启开你的智慧之门。
例句:
Stretch your brain with this puzzle.
用这个智力游戏锻炼你的思维能力。
聪明的人,智囊,出谋划策者
例句:
I felt a judicial mind, a keen, clear, unhampered brain, should sift and weigh.
我觉得应请一位心地公正、头脑锐敏、清晰而且毫无先入之见的人来进行鉴别和判断。
例句:
He is such a brain that no question can wipe him out.
他可真是个绝顶聪明的人,什么问题都难不倒他。
v.
打破…的脑袋,猛击…的头部 [T]
例句:
I nearly brained myself on that low beam.
那低矮的横梁险些把我的头撞碎。
例句:
He had threatened to brain him then and there.
他当时就威胁要打爆他的脑袋。
二、相关短语:
brain drain
n.智囊流失,人才外流
brain wave
n. 脑电波
brain coral
脑珊瑚
brain death
脑死亡
brain fever
n.[医]脑膜炎
brain tumor
脑肿瘤
minimal brain damage
轻微脑功能损伤
organic brain syndrome
器质性脑综合征
brain cell
n. [医]脑细胞
brain stem
脑干
brain truster
n. 智囊团团员, 顾问
brain sugar
【医】 脑糖
三、参考例句:
Please use your brains.
请动动脑筋。
Their brains are better switchers.
他们大脑转换得更快。
Our brains can only handle so much.
大脑承受能力有限。
She was the brains behind this.
这都是她想出的主意。
Brains and computers are often considered analogous.
人脑和电脑常被认为是类似的。
Our brains can gunk up with plaque.
大脑会因血小板凝结。
Their brains stay sharper in old age.
他们年纪大时,脑袋更灵光。
On average, human brains weigh about three pounds. Chimp brains only weigh a third as much.
平均来看,人类大脑的重量大约为三磅,而黑猩猩的大脑重量只有人类的三分之一。
It takes brains to administer a large corporation.
管理大公司要有头脑。
It takes brains to administer upon a large corporation.
管理一家大公司需要智慧。