brains

英 [breɪnz] 美 [breɪnz]

n.  脑; (供食用的)动物脑髓; 智力; 脑力; 逻辑思维能力
v.  猛击…的脑袋致死
brain的第三人称单数和复数

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柯林斯词典

  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.
    1. Her father died of a brain tumour.
      她父亲死于脑瘤。
  2. N-COUNT 头脑；智力
    Your brain is your mind and the way that you think.
    1. 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。
    2. 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.
    1. They were not the only ones to have brains and ambition...
      并不是只有他们聪明、有志向。
    2. I had a good brain and the teachers liked me.
      我很聪明，老师们都喜欢我。
  4. 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.
    1. Mr White was the brains behind the scheme...
      怀特先生是该项计划的幕后策划者。
    2. 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。
  5. VERB 猛击…的头部
    To brain someone means to hit them forcefully on the head.
    1. He had threatened to brain him then and there.
      他当时就威胁要打爆他的脑袋。
  6. 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.
    1. 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 （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.
    1. 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。
    2. He blew his brains out with a shotgun.
      他用一支猎枪射中了他的脑袋。
  8. PHRASE 一直想着；对…念念不忘
    If someone has something on the brain, they keep thinking about it.
    1. 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.
    1. 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
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双语例句

  1. They were not the only ones to have brains and ambition
    并不是只有他们聪明、有志向。
  2. Mr White was the brains behind the scheme
    怀特先生是该项计划的幕后策划者。
  3. 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。
  4. 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。
  5. 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。
  6. He blew his brains out with a shotgun.
    他用一支猎枪射中了他的脑袋。
  7. 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？
  8. He's got plenty of brains as well as brawn.
    他头脑聪明，身体强健。
  9. They first implanted capsules into the animals 'brains
    他们首先将密封管植入动物的大脑。
  10. Exposure to lead is known to damage the brains of young children.
    众所周知，接触铅对幼儿的大脑有害。
  11. They are the only ones whose brains are supple enough for the mental gymnastics required.
    他们是仅有的那些头脑足够灵活来应对这些需要动脑筋的事的人。
  12. Others think that the rules for what is 'musical' are hard-wired in our brains to some degree.
    其他人认为，我们的大脑对什么东西是“悦耳的”在某种程度上有其内在的标准。
  13. If you've got something to say it's got to be lodged in their brains at the end
    如果你有话要说，那就要让他们最终将这些话牢记于心。
  14. She began to rack her brains to remember what had happened at the nursing home.
    她开始绞尽脑汁地回忆在疗养院发生的事。
  15. We should always use our brains and think everything over carefully.
    凡事应该用脑筋好好想一想。
  16. Don't think this job a piece of cake. You'll have to rack your brains once you start on it.
    别以为这工作是易如反掌的事，你做了就知道它是很伤脑筋的。
  17. We must rack our brains for some answers to his questions.
    我们必须绞尽脑汁设法回答他的问题。
  18. When his plans all failed, the chairman blew his brains out.
    这位董事长的计划完全失败后，他对准脑袋开枪自杀了。
  19. I've racked my brains, but I have not yet to come up with any solution to the problem.
    我已经绞尽脑汁了，但是还没给那个问题找到任何答案。
  20. She has plenty of brains.
    她很有头脑。
  21. There had been a fashion, at least in the1930s, to feed sheep brains to infants.
    至少在1930年代，曾经很流行给婴儿吃羊脑。
  22. He hasn't much brains.
    他没有多少智慧。
  23. He has very little brains.
    他头脑简单。
  24. Tom racked his brains during the test trying to solve the problem.
    汤姆在考试时绞尽脑汁想解出那道题。
  25. He racked his brains for a long time but couldn't come up with a solution.
    他动了半天脑筋，也没想出个法子。
  26. The climber fell from the cliff and dashed his brains out on the rocks below.
    那位攀登者从悬崖上掉了下来，在下面的岩石上摔得脑浆迸裂。
  27. Some of the best brains in the country are here tonight.
    国内一些智囊人物今晚都出席了。
  28. I was bruising my brains trying to think where I had seen him.
    我在拼命回想，在哪里见过他。
  29. That'll teach them to use their hands along with their brains.
    那会给他们一个教训，遇事不仅要用手而且还要开动脑筋。
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