名词

1. 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.

2. 头脑；智力
Your brain is your mind and the way that you think.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 猛击…的头部
To brain someone means to hit them forcefully on the head.

6. 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.

7. （用枪）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.

8. 一直想着；对…念念不忘
If someone has something on the brain, they keep thinking about it.

9. 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.

10. to rack your brains - see rack

1. that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers
enclosed within the skull
continuous with the spinal cord

Synonym: encephalon

2. that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings
the seat of the faculty of reason

e.g. his mind wandered
I couldn't get his words out of my head

Synonym: mindheadpsychenous

3. mental ability

e.g. he's got plenty of brains but no common sense

Synonym: brainpowerlearning abilitymental capacitymentalitywit

4. the brain of certain animals used as meat

5. someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality

e.g. Mozart was a child genius
he's smart but he's no Einstein

Synonym: geniusmastermindbrainiacEinstein