音标:[brein] ; 柯林斯词典等级:4 级; 牛津三千核心词汇;
n. 脑
vt. 打碎脑部
n. that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord
n. mental ability
n. the brain of certain animals used as meat
v. hit on the head
词型变化:名词复数形式 : brains ; 现在分词 : braining ; 过去式 : brained ; 第三人称单数 : brains ; 过去分词 : brained
考试类型:[中考/高考/四级/考研/托福]
词性分布:
名词99%
动词1%

brain的用法和样例:

例句

用作名词(n.)
  1. The drug may cause permanent brain damage.这种药可能会引起永久性的脑部伤害。
  2. His brain seems to be functioning normally.他的大脑看起来功能正常。
  3. His brain was clouded by vapours and dreams.他的脑子里充满空想和梦幻。
  4. She has a good brain.她很有头脑。
  5. You need brains to become a university professor.当大学教授要有才智。
  6. He is one of the leading brains in the country.他是国家的知识分子精英。
  7. Brain is the master control center of the body.脑是身体的主要控制中心。
  8. The medulla oblongata is the most vital part of the brain because it contains centers controlling breathing and heart functioning.延髓是大脑最重要的部分,因为它包含着呼吸和心脏功能的控制中心。
用作及物动词(vt.)
  1. I'll brain you if you don't keep quiet.如果你不保持安静的话,我就敲你的脑袋。

常见句型

用作名词(n.)
  1. He burst one of his brain vessels.他的一根脑血管破了。
  2. The surgeon operated on his brain.外科医生对他做脑部手术。
  3. The human brain is a complex brain.人的大脑是个复杂的器官。
  4. He has a mathematical brain.他有数学头脑。
  5. He has a fine brain.他脑子好用。
  6. He has got a lot of brains.他足智多谋。
  7. He has very little brains.他头脑简单。
  8. He hasn't much brains.他没有多少智慧。
  9. Two brains are better than one.三个臭皮匠,胜过一个诸葛亮。
  10. I hired you for your brains, so why don't you use them?我是雇你来出主意想办法的,干吗不动动你的脑筋?
  11. She's a clever girl with plenty of brains.她是一个聪明而又很有才华的女孩子。
  12. John is the brain of the family.约翰是他家里的智囊。
  13. Some of the best brains in the country are here tonight.国内一些智囊人物今晚都出席了。
  14. Sheep's brains is his favourite dish.羊脑是他喜爱的佳肴。

常用短语

用作名词(n.)
beat one's brains out
    绞尽脑汁 spend a lot of time thinking or worrying about sth
blow one's brains out
    对准脑袋开枪自杀 shoot him through the head
brain drain
    人才外流 brain gone to outside
bruise one's brains
    苦苦思索 think sth hard
have on the brains
    一心想着某事物,对某事物入迷 think about sth constantly, be obsessed by sthhave sth on the brains

    I've had this tune on the brain all day but I can't remember what it's called.

    我脑海里整天回荡着这个曲调,但我想不起来叫什么。

sb's brains need washing
    某人该洗脑,某人的错误思想应该加以纠正 correct one's mistake thought
the brains
    智力超群的人 cleverest person in a group
the brains behind〔of〕...
    …的策划者 the designer of sth
use one's brains
    开动脑筋 start to think sth

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)
动词+~
  • beat one's brain over对…冥思苦想
  • blow out sb's brains把某人的脑袋打开花
  • have brains有头脑
  • lack brains缺乏头脑
  • muddle the brain使头脑糊涂
  • operate on brain对大脑施行手术
  • pick sb's brain采用某人的主张,抄袭他人的想法
  • tax one's brain费脑筋,苦思
  • turn sb's brain使某人得意忘形,冲昏某人的头脑
  • use one's brain动脑筋
形容词+~
  • clear-thinking brain思路清晰的头脑
  • disordered brain混乱的头脑
  • fine brain头脑灵活
  • political brain政治头脑
名词+~
  • animal brain动物大脑
  • human brain人脑,人类智慧
~+名词
  • brain trust智囊团
介词+~
  • on the brain念念不忘,热衷于
  • writer with brains有头脑的作家

经典引文

  • Was that plan the conception of any one brain?

    出自:W. Stubbs
  • Men of all ages who..hadn't the brains of an earwig.

    出自:V. Brittain

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alveolar-capillary membrane
atomic thermo-capacity
Baiso
bandlimitedness
base circle of cam contour
be on pins and needles
binder soil
blogaholics
bodgies
bottlenose dolphin
brubacher
Bundled service
cadmium compound
cavity field
circle segment
classical wave equation
Clinoril
conditionally exempt
crossotarsus simplex
damnworthy
data quality control monitor
demonstrative determiners
detrusion
Diplacrum caricinum
dis tressed
disodium EDTA
docking bridge
Doma Peaks
draft filly
elmina
empty one's plate
false incontinence
field road
firearm manoeuvre
flash desorption spectroscopy
fllium
ftp explorer
full buoyance
gatophobia
glymph
got up to kill
halpens
having it off
hop the perch
industrial solvent
klas
largest-capacity
late in life
lay emphasis up on
leonne
lime sower
limiting kinetic current
lindernia pyxidaria l.
lubrication oil sump
man load chart
Marienborn
MF
micrometer measuring rod
middle jiao
network army
nitrosoethylurethane
no-scope
odd half-spin representation
orchard cultivator
palisadian disturbance
perchlorovinyl resin
Perdices, Sa.de
Peverson
polyphyll
printer/plotter
recremental
return wall
rowlock bolster
rubber hydrochloride
Russianism
saxagliptin
sea connection
self-cleaning tank
sequence control of boiler ignition system
Siwalik Range/Hills
Slovomir
sodium silicate concrete
somatostatinomas
song of songs (hebrew)
spiny-stemmed
steering propeller
stepwise impulse
the yakuza
thought provoking
Tungufjall
two-level parametric amplifier
typhoid complicated with intestinal perforation
unboastfulness
under-glaze
unsinister
upper ideal
uriniferous tubulus (or renal tubules)
vertico-podalic diameter
Videhan
Vujicic
wrist fracture
zero gear