brains

英[b'reɪnz]美[b'reɪnz]

n.智力，脑髓，脑( brain的名词复数 )，智慧，聪明的人，（群体中）*聪明的人；

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The idea is locked up in his brains.We know nothing.他把自己的想法藏在脑子里, 我们一无所知。

This apparatus scans patients' brains for tumours.这台仪器扫描检查病人的脑瘤。

He puzzled his brains to find an answer.他冥思苦想寻求答案。

With his brains and energy, he’s got it made.凭他的智慧和干劲，这件事十拿九稳。

He was so depressed about his debts that he wanted to blow his brains out.他为债务烦恼不已,恨不得一*把自己结果了。

They relied on brains rather than brawn.他们靠的是脑力，而不是体力。

A wanton woman prefers brawn to brains.荡妇喜欢肌肉发达的人甚于头脑聪明的人。

While cleaning his shotgun he had accidentally blown his own brains out.他擦猎*时意外走火，打烂了自己的脑袋。

Others think that the rules for what is "musical" are hard-wired in our brains to some degree.其他人认为，我们的大脑对什么东西是“悦耳的”在某种程度上有其内在的标准。

Don't think this job a piece of cake. You'll have to rack your brains once you start on it.别以为这工作是易如反掌的事, 你做了就知道它是很伤脑筋的.

同义词解析

以下这些名词均有"智力，智慧" 的意思

mind：使用广泛，无褒贬之意。强调诸如认识、记忆、思考、决定等的智慧功能。

intellect：侧重不受感情或意志左右的冷静思考或领悟能力。

intelligence：指处理或对付问题或情况的特殊才智；也指运用、展开智慧的能力。

brain(多用复数brains)强调理解能力和独立的或者首创性的思维能力。

wit：指先天的才能、智力、意识等，隐含小聪明意味。

wisdom：较文雅，也可指明智的言行。

英语四级真题

A new study challenges that belief, questioning whether brains really can be distinguished by gender.

After exercising, the scientists tested the cyclists with eye tracking cameras to see how well their brains could still control their visual system.

But he cautioned against concluding from this study that all brains are the same, regardless of gender.

During deep sleep, the participants' brains behaved in a similar manner seen in birds and dolphins.

During deep sleep,the participants' brains behaved in a similar manner seen in birds and dolphins.

Many men and women have long bought into the idea that there are "male" and "female" brains, believing that explains just about every difference between the sexes.

Rather than offer evidence for categorizing brains as "male" or "female, " research shows that brains fall into a wide range, with most people falling right in the middle.

She also knew from previous work conducted on birds and dolphins that these animals put half of their brains to sleep at a time so that they can rest while remaining alert enough to avoid predators.

So while it may seem as if kids are just exercising their bodies when they're running around, they may actually be exercising their brains as well.

The answer is no, because brains are more sophisticated than that.

The participants each slept in the department for two nights and were carefully monitored with techniques that looked at the activity of their brains.

While the "average" male and "average" female brains were slightly different, you couldn't tell it by looking at individual brain scans.

英语六级真题

Our brains respond better to difficulty than we imagine

Their brains become both calmer and sharper.

Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, wrote, "The net is designed to be an interruption system, a machine geared to dividing attention."

In a 2016 study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, Ariely and colleagues showed how dishonesty alters people's brains, making it easier to tell lies in the future.

In studies, he gave subjects a chance to deceive for monetary gain while examining their brains in a functional Mri machine, which maps blood flow to active parts of the brain.

Instead of narrowing our focus, like negative emotions do, positive emotions affect our brains in ways that increase our awareness, attention and memory.

The brains of teenagers, but not adults, showed greater activity in two regions associated with rewards when they were being observed by same-age peers than when alone.

They scanned the brains of teens and adults who were playing a virtual driving game designed to test whether players would brake at a yellow light or speed on through the crossroad.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

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.

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头脑；智力

Your brain is your mind and the way that you think.

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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.

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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.

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VERB

猛击…的头部

To brain someone means to hit them forcefully on the head.

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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.

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（用*）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.

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一直想着；对…念念不忘

If someone has something on the brain, they keep thinking about it.

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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.

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