brawn
brawn 英 [brɔ:n] 美 [brɔn]
n. 发达的肌肉；膂力；腌制好的野猪肉
名词复数:brawns
- Brawn means muscular strength. Brawn is thought of as the opposite of brains, but let’s face it — people can be strong and smart! No matter how smart you are, though, you must have big muscles to have brawn.
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- n. 发达的肌肉；膂力；腌制好的野猪肉
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1. But the machines themselves—the “brawn” of automation—are only half the equation.
但是这些机器本身，也即自动化的“肌肉”部分只是平衡式的一半。
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2. brawn says his number one priority now is to work to keep the team alive by finding a buyer that would secure as many jobs as he can at the Northamptonshire base.
布朗表示，他目前的首要目标是找到一个买主，使本田车队得以幸存，这将使他能够尽可能多地保留那些在北安普敦郡基地的工作人员。
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3. At the same time, a new knowledge economy has sprung up, privileging communication, creativity, and self-motivation over brawn and emotional control.
与此同时，一种新知识经济已迅速出现，给沟通、创造、自我激励赋以在肌肉和情绪控制之上的特权。
- brawn (n.) late 13c., "boar's flesh;" early 14c., "flesh of a muscular part of the body," from Old French braon "fleshy or muscular part, buttock," from Frankish *brado "ham, roast" or some other Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *bred-on- (source also of Old High German brato "tender meat," German Braten "roast," Old Norse brað "raw meat," Old English bræd "flesh"), from PIE *bhre- "burn, heat," from root *bhreu- "to boil, bubble, effervesce, burn."
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