beat one's brain
(idiomatic) To struggle to think or remember something

8. No Hearts or No Brains? P.52 Helen and Dick are talking about the previous article. H: I don't understand how people can think Dr. Kevorkian is doing the right thing. D: Well, helping people die wi

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By Parke Brewer Liu Xiang burst on the track scene in 2002 when he set an Asian and world junior record in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 13.12 seconds. Last year, Chinese sports journalists vot

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US Military's Handling of Brain Injuries, Mental Health in Spotlight For Will Cook, coming home has been almost as challenging as going to war in Iraq. Doctors believe the 22-year-old former U.S. army specialist is suffering from traumatic brain inju

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Report To Army Finds Blast From Some Weapons May Put Shooter's Brain At Risk DAVID GREENE, HOST: There's a new report out today that finds that people in the military may be putting their own brains at risk when they fire certain high-powered weapons

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Studies of traumatic brain injury have revealed links to dementia and memory loss among veterans and athletes. It's also linked to PTSD among current and former service members. And another group maybe suffering so largely in sil

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Karen Hopkin. This'll just take a minute. Mozart was a genius. Duke Ellington, genius. Ringo Starr? Well, Ringo may be smarter than you think. Because a new study from Stockholm shows that people w

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brainchild to pick one's brain 今天我们要讲两个和人的脑子有关的习惯用语。

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美国习惯用语第179讲 (抱歉,本课文没有有声资料) 历史记录已经证明人的脑子可以发挥巨大的功能;人脑对社会和科学的发展做出了不可估量的贡献。但是

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TOM, TOM, THE PIPERS SON Tom, Tom, the pipers son, Stole a pig, and away he run, The pig was eat, And Tom was beat, And Tom ran crying down the street.

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A.D.H.D. is attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Children with A.D.H.D. might have trouble paying attention. They might not seem to listen. They might forget things. They might not be able to stay

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ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: As we've heard, Senator John McCain is recuperating from neurosurgery. He had a blood clot removed from over his eye. And to learn more about the kind of surgery he underwent, its risks and what a recuperation might be like, we t

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NOEL KING, HOST: All right, we know that giving your mental muscles a workout can help keep your brain sharp as you get older. The question is what does that workout look like? Is it crossword puzzles? Is it computer games? To find out, NPR's Jon Ham

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Web Boosts Grandpa's Brain In a study presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, researchers reported that older adults exposed to Web surfing for the first time showed increased brain activity in regions associated with languag

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Brain's Speech Center Finally Talks In a study in the journal Science, researchers analyzed the inner workings of Broca's area, long known as the brain's speech center, in pre-op brain surgery patients. Cynthia Graber reports In 1865, Pierre Paul Bro

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CANBERRA, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- Managing other people at work triggers structural changes in the brain, protecting its memory and learning center well into old age, Australia's study revealed on Friday. Australia's University of New South Wales (UNSW)

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LONDON, July 31 (Xinhua) -- Russia managed a 73-54 win over China though they were not playing an impressive offensive game Tuesday in the preliminary round of the men's basketball competition at the London 2012 here. Andrei Kirelenko scored 16 point

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LOS ANGELES, March 6 (Xinhua) -- Blake Griffin played a highly efficient game with 23 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists, which gave the Clippers big support to stop the Bucks' streak with 117-101 victory. The 11 assists were Griffin's career high. H

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TATABANYA, Hungary, June 23 (Xinhua) -- Hungary beat China 10-8 in a women's water polo friendly game in here on Saturday. The match was a warm-up for the Olympic women's water polo tournament which begins on July 30 in London. China led after the fi

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TEHRAN, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) -- Iran's volleyball club Paykan is out of FIVB Club World Championship after losing 3-2 to a Canadian club. Canada's Trinity Western Spartans rallied to beat Paykan 25-23, 18-25, 17-25, 25-18, 15-6 on Monday in Doha, Qatar,

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美国习惯用语第858:努力想要记起某事(音频) rack one's brain 我最近发现自己还没上年纪,就已经开始健忘了。昨天,一个接受采访的专家向我推荐了一家很有介绍价值的机构。今天本想搜集点资

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acyesis
adrenomedullotrophic hormone
angiosperma
atomic hydrogen arc welding
atonic consipation
Bichat's membranae
biovac
blap
bondehede
branch of economic activity
BTEB2
Buzzard's reflex
Bwiru
columnar order
concentrated enzyme preparation
condoner
consulat
core of a rope
counter credit
couple stress fluid
date corrector
Dendroctonus armandi
diffusion
disfavo(u)r
distributive faulting
distriction
double-figures
esag
european barberries
extension techniques
faineant
feet fixing hole
fire-screen
flowen
fractally
functional potentiometer
furnace thermal efficiency
game graph
ginseng root
glucanosyltransferases
grease the palm of
grip length
Guenz
handpiece connection
hoko
hypernets
i-tached
incernicle
Isoleurosine
jackass
Jiangjun Township
law of interest
linear radio-frequency mass-spectrometer
macropes major
main sprue
mindstorms
Montparnasse
Mukono
multi-plough
naturalized plant
noise insulation equipment
non-action
oil film thickness
oil mineral
paragraphly
passive gamma-ray assay
patrists
Phoenician language
Plains Miwok
polirzer's bag
polymetallic sulfide
polyphase voltage source
power supply reliabity
prescreening
pseudoreplicating
pure aluminium wire
quasi-oceanic crust
receptum
scan laser
script writer
self-sealing inner tube
Senonches
smiths cold set
spinycheek sleeper
squabble about sth
stationary light
stock quotation
superheat resisting alloy
telegraph receive
temperature performance
the legend
the year after next
thick ice
to break loose
trexler
turns step down ratio
unhad
weighted creep ratio
West, Benjamin
yorks
Zu-Zu
Zuckerkandl's convoiution