brain
美 [breɪn]
英 [breɪn] 
- n.脑;脑力;智力;(供食用的)动物脑髓
- v.猛击…的脑袋致死
- 网络大脑;头脑;脑子
词形变化
复数:brains 现在分词:braining 过去式:brained 同义词
英汉双解
头in head
1. | [c] 脑the organ inside the head that controls movement, thought, memory and feeling |
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| She died of a brain tumour. 她死于脑瘤。 |
| a device to measure brain activity during sleep 检测睡眠时脑部活动的仪器 |
食物food
2. | [pl] (供食用的)动物脑髓the brain of an animal, eaten as food |
智力intelligence
3. | [u][c][usupl] 智力;脑力;逻辑思维能力the ability to learn quickly and think about things in a logical and intelligent way |
| It doesn't take much brain to work out that both stories can't be true. 不必费多大脑筋就知道,两种说法不可能都是真的。 |
| Teachers spotted that he had a good brain at an early age. 老师们发现他小时候就很聪颖。 |
| You need brains as well as brawn(= intelligence as well as strength) to do this job. 这项工作既需要脑力又需要体力。 |
聪明人intelligent person
4. | [c][usupl]
聪明的人;有智慧的人an intelligent person |
| one of the best scientific brains in the country 国家最优秀的科技人才之一 |
5. | [sing] (群体中)最聪明的人;策划组织者the most intelligent person in a particular group; the person who is responsible for thinking of and organizing sth |
| He's always been the brains of the family. 这家人数他聪明。 |
| The band's drummer is the brains behind their latest venture. 这位乐队鼓手是他们最近一次活动的策划人。 |
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~ sb/sth/yourself 猛击…的脑袋致死to kill a person or an animal by hitting them very hard on the head |
| I nearly brained myself on that low beam. 那根低横梁差点儿把我撞死。 |
习惯用语
have sth on the brain
某事萦绕心头;过分热衷to think about sth all the time, especially in a way that is annoying
| He has sex on the brain. 他脑子里想的全是性。 |
英汉解释
英英解释
例句
Languages appear to exercise the brain as if it were a muscle and flexibility links directly to the development of digital literacies.
语言对大脑的锻炼就像肌肉和灵活性,直接关系到数字文化的发展。
"We found a strong overreaction from the emotional centers of the brain, " Walker said.
我们发现大脑的情绪中枢强烈反应过度。
This position he held until 1876, when overwork induced an affection of the brain and eyes, and he had to travel for his health.
他担任这个职位一直到1876年,这年过度的工作使得其脑部和眼睛受到严重影响,他不得不为他的健康开始旅行。
Now, this brain region is packed with a type of protein that's activated by acid, and seems to be involved in an animal's response to fear.
这一部分脑区承载着一种可以被酸激活的蛋白质,而这种蛋白质似乎才是动物身体应激反应的来源。
Even young women recovering from anorexia who have maintained a healthy weight for over a year had vastly different brain activity patterns.
年轻的厌食症女性患者即使已经完全恢复了健康,并保持正常体重一年以上,其脑活动形态仍窘然不同。
Gene treatment Patients with Parkinson's have reduced levels of a chemical - GABA - in part of the brain known as the subthalamic nucleus.
接受基因疗法治疗的帕金森病患者中,化学物质GABA水平有所降低,该化学物在脑部也被称为氨基丁酸。
Claims that the part of the brain known as the hypothalamus is influential in determining sexual orientation, have yet to be substantiated.
大脑中被认作为“脑下丘”的那部分对性取向的决定有影响的主张已经被证实。
An additional challenge is the question of how available brain imaging would be for the average patient.
我们面临的另一个问题是如何得到普通病人的脑成像资料。
Maybe it's something special in his brain that allows him to make tools or to have mathematics.
因为(人类)大脑的与众不同他们才发明了工具和数学。
Critical periods are also one of the main reasons adults do not recover as well from brain injuries as children do.
这样的关键期也是成年人无法像儿童一样,自脑伤中恢复过来的重要理由之一。
Scientists have identified the brain circuits that 'decide' how much we eat.
科学家发现了决定我们饮食量的大脑回路。
You'd be able to fly. Or if you could download your brain to a bionic entity, you'd be like a Superman.
你还能飞起来。同样地,下载到仿生物体上,你也会变成超人。
Stalin's idea was that scientists would study the brain to prove that the Soviet founder had been a genius.
斯大林想让科学家对大脑进行研究,以证明这位苏联奠基者是个天才。
It had a small brain, apparently walked upright, and had teeth more like those of a human than an ape.
它的脑子小,显然直立行走,牙齿与猿类比较更象人类的牙齿。
When she was in her twenties, her father arranged for her to have an operation on her brain to improve her mental condition.
当她在她20多岁,她的父亲为她安排她的大脑的运作,以提高她的精神状态。
Then, just as the meeting is looking like a washout, Goldman analyst Marc Fox lets something slip that starts Heebner's brain whirling.
那时,正在进行中的会议就像是一场洗礼,高盛分析师MarcFox一些不经意的话让Heebner的头脑开始转动起来。
martin went into the kitchen with a sinking heart , the image of her red face and slatternly form eating its way like acid into his brain.
马丁心情沉重地走进厨房。她那红通通的脸膛和道里遍遇的样子像酸素一样侵蚀着他的心。
The brain then adds them together as if they were natural, to create the impression of depth, as well as width and height.
然后大脑把这两个视频图像就象自然状态那样叠加在一起,从而产生具有深度以及宽度和高度的景象。
Already he had discovered that his brain went beyond Ruth's, just as it went beyond the brains of her brothers, or the brain of her father.
他已经发现他的脑子比露丝想得更多,正如比她的弟弟和爸爸想得更多一样。
It was as though the chief screw in his brain upon which his whole life rested were loose.
好像他的头脑中有一颗用以支撑他整个生命的主要螺丝给拧坏了。
Moreover, we learn our mother language by listening to others; only after countless experiences is it deposited in our brain.
另一方面,我们总是听见别人说话才学会自己的母语的;它要经过无数次的经验,才能储存在我们的脑子里。
He became a vegetable due to severe brain damage after a car accident.
在那次车祸之后,他由于脑部严重受损而变成了一个植物人。
A word had clicked in Peter's brain.
一个词突然在彼得脑里一闪。
He has sex on the brain.
他脑子里想的全是性。
He painted with the brain, and he could not help knowing that the only painting worth anything was done with the heart.
他这才明白,他是用头脑来画,而凡是有些价值的作品都是用心灵画出来的。
Or is all this an empty conceit, the vaporing of the tired and overwrought brain of a life long liberal?
再不然,这一切是不是一种无聊的妄自尊大,是不是一个毕生开明的人疲乏过度大脑的幻想呢?
For him it was not enough that there might be disorders of the body that originated in the brain.
在他看来,单是认为大脑可能导致身体变化这一点还不够。
Still, the economist is still likely to see the merits of a brain-drain tax on the outflow of human capital.
不过,这位经济学家可能还是看到对人力资本外流征收一种人才外流税的种种优点。
The Egyptians knew that damage to the brain could cause other parts of the body to become paralysed.
埃及人知道,大脑的损伤会引起身体其它部分的瘫痪。
The enemy lodged a bullet in his brain.
敌人将一颗子弹打入他的头部。
The idea of a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor originated in the brain of Admiral Yamamoto, the Japanese Commander-in-chief.
空袭珍珠港的念头是日本海军总司令山本大将想出的。
She could spend Saturday in the cool gloom watching that tube until her brain turned to fish paste if she chose.
如果她愿意的话,她尽可以找个僻静又凉快的地方去看看电视,去消磨一个周六,直到看得脑袋发胀为止。
The long-hoped-for bullet was entering his brain.
等待已久的子弹穿进了他的脑袋。
That specimen consists of a skull and the fossil impression of the brain of a 6-year-old child who died perhaps 2 million years ago.
这个标本是一个大约死于200万年前的6岁儿童的头骨和脑模化石。
There are the much less talked-about, more exotic designs for anti-matter weapons and brain bombs.
还有那些人们不大谈到的,构想更为新奇的反物质武器和脑弹的设计。
If he lays a hand on me, I'll brain him.
如果他敢动手,我就打碎他的脑袋。
Stroke is the most common serious disorder of the brain.
中风是脑的最常见最严重的疾病。
I've just got a brain storm, let's talk about it.
我突然有灵感,让我们讨论一下吧。
She died of a brain tumour.
她死于脑瘤。
It doesn't take much brain to work out that both stories can't be true.
不必费多大脑筋就知道,两种说法不可能都是真的。
Alcohol acts quickly on the brain.
酒精对大脑迅速产生影响。
He has brain-trusted the major corporation.
他一直充当这家大公司的智囊。
His brain was not big enough.
他的思想不够开阔。
Perhaps it is the brain that needs resting?
也许是大脑需要休息吧?
Scientists stressed good diet was vital in a child's early life as the brain grows at its fastest rate during the first three years of life.
科学家强调说在儿童的早期生活中良好的饮食结构极其重要,因为在生命的头三年中,孩子的大脑发育得最快。
During these 'ah-ha' moments, it is no doubt that your mind is completely powered up and probably working in another gear of the brain.
在这些“啊-哈!”时刻,毫无疑问,您的想法是完全活跃的,并可能活跃在大脑的另一个齿轮上。
Indeed, it is often referred to as the "control" center of the brain.
的确,它通常被认为是大脑的“控制”中心。
Now ask her to close her eyes and take you on a tour of her brain and describe what she sees.
现在,让他闭上眼睛来带着你参观一下他的大脑并描述他看到了什么。
You have got all that the great have had: two arms, two legs, two hands, two eyes, and a brain to use if you'd be wise.
如果你是明智的,你拥有了所有伟人所拥有的:两只胳膊、两条腿、两只手、两只眼和大脑。
You turn off your brain for a night, and all your left with the next day is a bad hangover, a sprained ankle, and a pineapple.
你只是放纵大脑一个晚上,第二天早上伴随而来的就是强烈的宿醉,扭伤的脚踝还有一个菠萝。
It is not the task of an intellectual to remember useless things. It is the task of the intellectual to use his brain to think about things.
知识份子的工作是要用他的脑袋去思考事情。
You got to stop listening to these people, they're poisoning your brain. Your hormone things-they're out of whack.
你要停止去听那些人的话,他们在毒害你的思想,你的荷尔蒙失衡了,它们影响了你。
They found a tumor on the back of her brain. It was big, about the size of a baseball. It is a balloon kind of mass; not malignant.
他们在她的后脑找到一些东西,约棒球般大小,那是很特别的东西,医生们知道它的名称,我不知道。
So, while my genes bias my brain toward spooking easily and trying to make a quick buck, that isn't how I actually behave.
因此,尽管我的基因使得我的大脑容易大惊小怪,而且倾向于迅速赚钱,但我的实际行为却并非如此。
They saw hallmarks of glioma growth in the deep brain that were previously known in tumors described as surficial (on or near the surface).
他们看到了神经胶质瘤在大脑深部的特征性生长方式,与生长在表面的肿瘤相同。
We brought her for an examination the next day and discovered that she had a brain tumor in an inoperable position.
我们第二天带她去检验,发觉她有脑瘤,其位置不能割除。
The goal is to see how sharing a new and challenging experience with a spouse changes the neural activation of the brain.
其目的是看看当改变大脑中的神经刺激时,夫妻间如何分享一个新奇而有挑战性的经历。
He realised her mother's violent death was 'like a wound on the brain'.
他意识到她的母亲的自杀是“她脑中的一道伤口”。
To compete for a place in the Linux world, you need a PC, an Internet connection and a brain.
在linux世界里面竞争,你需要一台电脑,连上internet以及一个好的头脑就足够了。
Researchers discovered that contrary to popular opinion the brain is not always entirely asleep or awake but parts of it can go "offline" .
研究人员发现,睡着并不是大脑神经全在休息,醒着也不是大脑神经全在工作,而只是部分神经“断开”。这一发现是与普通观点相悖。
Birdbrain: A stupid person is often called a birdbrain since a bird's brain is normally small --about the size of the bird's eye.
鸟脑:一个愚蠢的人经常被称做鸟脑,因为鸟的脑子通常很小;大约只有鸟眼睛一般大小。
Dr. Alzheimer was the first to notice the changes in the brain tissue of a woman who died of an mental illness.
阿兹海默医生是第一个注意到这个问题的人,问题源于一个女精神病人的大脑组织的改变。
Marius had had a furnace in his brain all day long; now it was a whirlwind.
马吕斯这一整天脑子里燃着一炉火,现在又起了一阵风暴。
He felt it with every step he took, like a fire in his brain, in his blood.
他每做一步,都感觉到,他脑子和周身的血液燃烧着烈火。