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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary
- brain
[breɪn]
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1.
noun
[c]
[解剖]
脑
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2.
noun
[u]
[fig]
大脑
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3.
n pl
[Cooking]
脑髓
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4.
n pl
(intelligence) 智力
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he's got brains
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他很聪慧
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he's the brains of the organization
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[inf] 他是该组织的中枢人物
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to pick sb's brains
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[inf] 问某人的意见
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to rack one's brains
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绞尽脑汁
Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary
- brain
[breɪn]
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1.
n.[c]
[Anatomy]
[Zoology]
脑，大脑
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The human brain is a product of a very long evolutionary process.
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人脑是非常长久的进化过程的产物。
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2.
n.[c/u]
智力，智慧
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He's got plenty of brains but no common sense.
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他很有头脑，但却没有常识。
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3.
noun
头脑，心智
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I can see with your business brain there's no holding you back.
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我根据你的商业头脑来判断，恐怕没有什么东西能让你回头了。
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4.
n.[c]
[Spoken]
极聪明的人，智囊
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Want to find out who is the real brains of your school?
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想要知道谁是你们学校的天才吗？
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5.
noun
（食用的动物）脑、脑髓
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There had been a fashion, at least in the 1930s, to feed sheep brains to infants.
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至少在1930年代，曾经很流行给婴儿吃羊脑。
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6.
vt.
[Slang]
击打……的头部
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Some students were brained with rocks.
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有些学生的脑袋撞到石头上了。
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7.
vt.
猛击头部而打死
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The alleged spy was brained with a hammer.
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那名所谓的间谍被人用榔头打烂了头骨。
Collins English-English Dictionary
- brain
[breɪn]
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1.
n
the soft convoluted mass of nervous tissue within the skull of vertebrates that is the controlling and coordinating centre of the nervous system and the seat of thought, memory, and emotion. It includes the cerebrum, brainstem, and cerebellum encephalon
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2.
n
the main neural bundle or ganglion of certain invertebrates
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3.
n
[often plural]
[Spoken]
intellectual ability
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he's got brains
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4.
n
[Spoken]
shrewdness or cunning
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5.
n
[Spoken]
an intellectual or intelligent person
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6.
n
[usually plural; functioning as singular]
[Spoken]
a person who plans and organizes an undertaking or is in overall control of an organization, etc
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7.
n
an electronic device, such as a computer, that performs apparently similar functions to the human brain
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8.
vt.
[tr]
to smash the skull of
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9.
vt.
[Slang]
to hit hard on the head
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10.
vt.
[Etymology]
Old English brægen; related to Old Frisian brein, Middle Low German bregen, Greek brekhmos forehead
Examples
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many ideas churning in his brain
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他脑海里翻腾着的许多想法
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A headache is one result of lack of oxygen to the brain.
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头疼是大脑缺氧引起的症状之一。
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Use your brain before doing something.
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做事前先动脑子想想。
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Some people say my sister has a huge brain, but I think she is stupid.
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有人说我妹妹很聪明，但我认为她很笨。
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to have a brain haemorrhage
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大脑内出血
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