Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense, plural brains, present participle braining, past tense, past participle brained
1N-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。
2N-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。
3N-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。
4N-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。
5VERB 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]
6PHRASE [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。
7PHRASE [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。
8PHRASE [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。
9PHRASE 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?