brain
brain 英 [breɪn] 美 [bren]
n. 脑，头脑，智力
进行时:braining 过去式:brained 过去分词:brained 第三人称单数:brains 名词复数:brains
- The brain is the most complex organ in the body, located inside the protective skull. The word can also be used as a verb in the phrase "to brain," which means to injure or kill someone by hitting them in the head.
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- n. 脑，头脑，智力
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1. damage to the brain
脑部损伤
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2. brain cells
脑细胞
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3. She died of a brain tumour.
她死于脑瘤。
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4. sheep's brains
羊脑
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5. 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，两种说法都不可能是真的。
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6. You need brains as well as brawn to do this job.
这项工作既需要脑力又需要体力。
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7. one of the best scientific brains in the country
国家最优秀的科技人才之一
- brain (n.) "soft, grayish mass filling the cranial cavity of a vertebrate," in the broadest sense, "organ of consciousness and the mind," Old English brægen "brain," from Proto-Germanic *bragnam (source also of Middle Low German bregen, Old Frisian and Dutch brein), of uncertain origin, perhaps from PIE root *mregh-m(n)o- "skull, brain" (source also of Greek brekhmos "front part of the skull, top of the head"). But Liberman writes that brain "has no established cognates outside West Germanic ..." and is not connected to the Greek word. More probably, he writes, its etymon is PIE *bhragno "something broken."
- brain (v.) "to dash the brains out," late 14c., from brain (n.). Related: Brained; braining.
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