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TOEFL BNC: 1643 COCA: 1189
brain
breɪn breɪn
Word forms: plural , 3rd person singular present tense , plural brains, present participle braining, past tense , past participle brained
1 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. 脑；大脑

  • Her father died of a brain tumour.

    她父亲死于脑瘤。

2 N-COUNT [usually poss NOUN] 头脑；智力 Your brain is your mind and the way that you think. 头脑；智力

  • 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。

3 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. 智力；智慧；头脑

  • 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。

4 N-COUNT [usually plural] 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. 智囊；出谋划策者 [informal]

  • 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. [+ of]

    一些调查员认为她是该团伙的决策者。

5 VERB 猛击…的头部 To brain someone means to hit them forcefully on the head. 猛击…的头部 [informal]

  • He had threatened to brain him then and there. [VERB noun]

    他当时就威胁要打爆他的脑袋。

SYN hit, strike, smash, belt [informal]
6 PHRASE [VERB inflects] 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. 把…的脑袋打伤；把…脑袋打开花 [informal]

  • 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。

7 PHRASE [VERB inflects] （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. （用枪）把…的脑袋打开花；射中…的头部 [informal]

  • 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。

8 PHRASE [VERB inflects] 一直想着；对…念念不忘 If someone has something on the brain, they keep thinking about it. 一直想着；对…念念不忘 [informal]

  • 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。

9 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. 请教；讨教 [informal]

  • 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？

10 to rack your brains→see: rack 
Quotations
Our brains may be too big - dooming us as Triceratops was doomed by his armour Arthur C. Clarke
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival Kurt Vonnegut
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TOEFL BNC: 1643 COCA: 1189
brain

noun¹

 1part of the body身體ADJECTIVE | BRAIN + NOUN | PREPOSITION | PHRASES ADJECTIVE➤human人腦▸➤left, right左腦；右腦◇The left brain controls the right-hand side of the body.左腦控制人的右半身。BRAIN + NOUN➤cell, tissue腦細胞；腦組織▸➤region大腦區域➤stem (usually brainstem) 腦幹▸➤function, process大腦功能／活動過程▸➤activity大腦活動▸➤damage, death, disease, disorder, failure, haemorrhage/hemorrhage, illness, injury, tumour/tumor大腦損傷；腦死亡；腦部疾患；腦部病症；腦力衰竭；腦出血；腦瘤▸➤scan腦部掃描◇He had a brain scan to search for possible damage.他做了個腦掃描檢查是否有損傷。➤surgeon, surgery腦外科醫生；腦外科➤waves (usually brainwaves) 腦電波PREPOSITION➤in the/your brain在大腦裏◇Doctors tried to reduce the swelling in his brain.醫生試圖減輕他的腦腫脹。➤on the/your brain在大腦裏；一直想着⋯◇He was found to have a blood clot on his brain.他的腦部發現有血塊。◇He has sex on the brain (= thinks about nothing but sex).他滿腦子想的都是性。PHRASES➤blow your brains out打得腦袋開花◇He put a gun to his head and threatened to blow his brains out.他用槍指着他的頭，威脅說要讓他腦袋開花。
brain

noun²

 2ability to think/intelligence腦力ADJECTIVE | VERB + BRAIN | BRAIN + VERB | BRAIN + NOUN | PREPOSITION | PHRASES ADJECTIVE➤fertile, fine, good, great, quick豐富的頭腦；精明的頭腦；機敏的頭腦➤muddled, tired混亂的頭腦；疲憊的腦子◇My tired brain couldn't cope with such a complex problem.我疲勞的大腦無法應付如此複雜的問題。➤analytical善於分析的頭腦VERB + BRAIN➤rack絞盡腦汁◇We racked our brains but we couldn't come up with a solution.我們絞盡腦汁也想不出解決方法。➤pick sb's (= ask sb for information because they know more about a subject than you) 向某人求教◇I need to pick your brains: what can you tell me about credit unions?我向您請教一下：您能告訴我信用合作社是怎麼回事嗎？➤take費腦子◇It doesn't take much brain to work out that both stories can't be true.用不着多想就知道兩種說法都不可能是真的。➤use動腦子BRAIN + VERB➤function, tick over, work大腦運轉◇It's important to keep your brain ticking over.經常開動腦筋很重要。➤reel大腦眩暈◇His brain reeled as he realized the implication of his dismissal.當意識到這是暗示要解雇他時，他的大腦一陣眩暈。➤register sth大腦注意到⋯◇The stopping distance includes the time taken for the brain to register the need to stop.制動停車距離涵蓋了大腦意識到必須停車所需要的時間。BRAIN + NOUN➤power (usually brainpower) 腦力；智囊➤drain (= the movement of skilled people to other countries) 人才流失PREPOSITION➤brain behind⋯的出謀劃策者◇He was the brains behind the robberies.他是劫案背後的謀劃者。PHRASES➤brains, not brawn腦力而非體力◇They relied on brains rather than brawn (= intelligence, not strength).他們靠的是腦力，而不是體力。➤have a brain for sth有⋯頭腦◇She has a good brain for mathematics.她很有數學頭腦。
TOEFL BNC: 1643 COCA: 1189
brain noun
⇨ genius (the brains of the family) ⇨ intelligence (It doesn't take much brain to work that out.) ⇨ mind (brain cells)
TOEFL BNC: 1643 COCA: 1189

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