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