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词汇 brain
释义 brain
noun
uk /breɪn/ us /breɪn/
A2[ C ]
the organ inside the head that controls thought, memory, feelings, and activity: 脑,大脑
Doctors tried desperately to reduce the swelling in her brain.医生想尽一切办法缩小她脑部的肿块。
brain damage The accident left him with permanent brain damage.事故给他造成了永久性大脑损伤。
brain tumour His wife died from a brain tumour.他妻子死于脑瘤。
C1[ C ]
used to refer to intelligence: 头脑;智力
Marie has an amazing brain (= is very intelligent).玛丽的智力惊人。
That can't possibly be the right way to do it - use your brain!那样做肯定不对——动动脑筋!
The poor child inherited his mother's brains and his father's looks.这个可怜的孩子继承了妈妈的头脑和爸爸的长相。
He's got brains but he's too lazy to use them (= he is intelligent but lazy).他人很聪明,但就是懒得动脑子。
[ Cusually plural ]informal
a very intelligent person, especially one who has spent a lot of time studying: 极聪明的人;智者;智囊
We have the best brains in the land working on this problem.我们找到了国内最好的专家来解决这个问题。
 the brains[ S ]
the most intelligent person in a group, especially the person who plans what the group will do: (机构组织中主管全局的)最聪明的人;策划组织者
the brains ofMy little brother's the brains of the family.我们家数我弟弟聪明。
Gorillas, chimpanzees, and gibbons are all anthropoid apes, having long arms, no tails, and highly developed brains.大猩猩、黑猩猩和长臂猿都是类人猿,都有着很长的前肢、高度发达的大脑,且没有尾巴。
The doctors were worried that he might have suffered brain damage.医生们担心他可能受到了脑损伤。
The virus attacks specific cells in the brain.这种病毒专门攻击大脑内特定的细胞。
We still don't fully understand how the brain works.我们还未完全弄懂大脑是如何工作的。
He had a blood clot removed from his brain.他颅内的一个血块被取了出来。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

The brain & nervous system
abducens nerve
abducent nerve
accessory nerve
alexithymia
allism
glossopharyngeal nerve
grey matter
hemispheric
hemispherical
hindbrain
neurofibrillary
neurogenic
neurogenically
neuroglia
neuroglial
reinnervation
reticular formation
rhinencephalon
rhombencephalon
right brain

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Intelligence
Intelligent people

Idiom


have something on the brain
brain
verb[ T ]
 informaluk /breɪn/ us /breɪn/
to hit someone on the head: 打…的头部
I'll brain you if you don't keep quiet.如果你不保持安静我就打你的头。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Hitting and beating
at-risk
bang away
bang someone up
basher
bashing
bunch
butt
duke
fetch
gut punch
hammer
head-butt
hell
mess
swing at someone
swing for someone
tan someone's hideidiom
tar
tonk
wallop

brain | American Dictionary


brain
noun[ C ]
us/breɪn/
the organ inside the head that controls thought, memory, feelings, and physical activity:
a brain tumor
brain surgery
They found fractured ribs, other bone injuries, and brain damage.
infml A brain is also a very intelligent person:
We’ve got the best brains in the country working on this problem.

brain | Business English


brain
noun
 informaluk /breɪn/us
[ C,usually plural ]
a very intelligent person:
We've got the best brains in the industry working on the cars.
 the brains[ S ]
the person responsible for the planning and management of an activity or organization:
the brains behind sthHe is the brains behind the corporation's success.

Examples of brain


brain
The mouse brains were excised and collected for histopathological study and immunological analyses.
The three techniques used had the same sensitivity for virus detection in bat brains (100 %).
Studies have demonstrated that our brains contain neurally based 'body schema', or representations of our bodies.
Our brains are plastic in the sense of being adaptable, able to learn to operate in new ways as the environment demands.
The account also implies we couldn't survive severe amnesia or strokes that render our brains infant-like and in need of retraining.
Replication of distinct scrapie prion isolates is region specific in brains of transgenic mice and hamsters.
Two other chapters in this section cover the neuron, which is the brain's ' microprocessor ' and the many different neurotransmitter systems.
One month after immunization brains were processed to detect b-galactosidase expression by immunohistochemistry.
One boy tells another that their teacher: is always telling us to use our own hands and brains.
How many subtypes of glia exist in the brains of invertebrates and mammals?
Since every human being's history and circumstances are different, each brain's wiring is going to be quite unique.
The idea that psychologists' choice of experimental paradigms has representation in the animals' brains is too, too much!
Also, big brains would still remain adaptive even without niche construction.
Three times he has infected our blood and brains with the bacillus of perfection.
If the number of languages is finite, the enumeration might be inscribed as such in the brains of human infants.
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Collocations withbrain


brain

These are words often used in combination with brain.

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brain activation
At present, however, no data indicate that brain activation can be demonstrated whenever vivid dream reports are obtained.
brain aneurysm
He died on 3/21/08 after falling into a coma from suffering a brainaneurysm on 3/17/08.
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brain cancer
A community group has counted 18 children with brain cancer and 3 children with brain cysts since 1996.
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