英语释义

1. the portion of the vertebrate central nervous system enclosed in the skull and continuous with the spinal cord through the foramen magnum that is composed of neurons and supporting and nutritive structures (such as glia) and that integrates sensory information from inside and outside the body in controlling autonomic function (such as heartbeat and respiration), in coordinating and directing correlated motor responses, and in the process of learning — compare forebrain, hindbrain, midbrain

2. a nervous center in invertebrates comparable in position and function to the vertebrate brain

3. intellect, mind
has a clever brain

4. intellectual endowment intelligence —often used in plural
plenty of brains in that family

5. a very intelligent or intellectual person

6. the chief planner within a group —usually used in plural
she's the brains behind their success

7. something that performs the functions of a brain especially an automatic device (such as a computer) for control or computation

8. to kill by smashing the skull

9. to hit on the head

10. the organ of the body in the head that controls functions, movements, sensations, and thoughts

11. the ability to think and reason

12. a very intelligent person

13. to hit (someone) on the head very hard

14. the part of the nervous system that is inside the skull, consists of grayish nerve cells and whitish nerve fibers, and is the organ of thought and the central control point for the nervous system

15. the ability to think intelligence

16. someone who is very smart

17. to hit on the head very hard

18. the portion of the vertebrate central nervous system enclosed in the skull and continuous with the spinal cord through the foramen magnum that is composed of neurons and supporting and nutritive structures (as glia) and that integrates sensory information from inside and outside the body in controlling autonomic function (as heartbeat and respiration), in coordinating and directing correlated motor responses, and in the process of learning — see forebrain, hindbrain, midbrain

片语

brain chemistry[生化] 脑化学

brain power脑力；[心理] 智能

Tricky Brains整蛊专家（电影名）

brain trust智囊团

the brains脑

Armed brains武装头脑

brain tumor脑瘤，脑癌；[肿瘤] 脑肿瘤

brain storming头脑风暴法，集体创造性思维法

brain dead脑死亡的

brain truster顾问；智囊团团员

blood brain barrier血脑屏障

brains puree脑馅酱

human brain人脑

brain surgery脑外科；脑部手术

brain death脑死亡

brain injury脑损伤

brain damage脑损伤

Why brains何必绞尽脑汁

brain work脑力劳动

brain cell脑细胞

on the brain念念不忘；着迷

Brains reflex布雷恩反射

MMM BRAINS僵尸能活

Backyard Brains后院天才

brain drain人才外流；智囊流失

brain scan脑部扫描

Dirty brains脏脑筋

brain stem脑干

brain activity大脑活动

英汉例句

• should they be allowed to argue in court that their brains made them do it?

  他们能否被允许在法庭上辩称，是他们的大脑迫使他们干的？

• if all our participants insisted on thinking positively when it came to what lay in store for them personally, what does that tell us about how our brains are wired?

  如果我们的所有参与者在思考与自己个人相关的将来时都坚持用积极的方式，这告诉了我们关于大脑机制的什么东西呢？

• 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。

• they decided to peek into the brains of 19 volunteers who were choosing whether to give money to charity, or keep it for themselves.

  他们决定观察19名志愿者的脑活动。 这些志愿者必须做出选择：是把钱留给自己还是捐给慈善事业。

• we know that a form of selection occurs within our brains as we develop and learn - synaptic connections and pathways that work well are reinforced, whereas weak ones deteriorate.

  我们知道，人在发育和学习期间大脑里面发生一种形式的选择——那些运转正常的突触链接和路径得到加强，而弱者恶化。

• as the ancestors of early humans turned to meat for sustenance, they were able to grow larger brains which in turn enabled them to make more sophisticated tools.

  随着人类的早期祖先转向以肉类为食物，他们的大脑就能够长得更大，这又反过来使得他们能够制造更为复杂的工具。

• our brains are just pattern matching machines, so we tend to notice patterns like that.

  我们大脑是模式匹配机器，因此我们更容易注意到这样的模式。

• it is interesting to see that even animals that have contact with humans, like cats, have much smaller brains than dogs and horses because of their lack of sociality.

  有趣的是，我们发现即便是那些已经同人类有过亲密接触的动物，例如猫类，其大脑还是因为其缺乏社会性而比狗类和马要小了很多。

• indeed, he takes this evolutionary process seriously: he is fond of pointing out to his audiences that they have both 「mammalian」 and 「reptilian」 brains that can be employed at different moments.

  实际上，罗闻全对待这种进化过程的态度是认真的：他喜欢向听众指出，他们都拥有可以在不同时刻使用的「哺乳动物」和「爬虫类」大脑。

• he and his team then compare that with the same brains in a state of rest.

  之后他和他的团队将上述状态下的大脑与平静期的进行了比较。

• what this study does do, however, is add to the increasing evidence that there are some detectable neurological differences in the brains of transgendered people.

  但是，这个研究的真正的贡献是，它更加清晰的表明，在变性人的大脑中，具有可以察觉的神经水平上的差异。

• but he also needed a way to judge whether his subjects’ brains really did go into turbo mode.

  但他还需要一种方法来判断，参试者的大脑是否真的进入涡轮增压(高速)运行模式。

• but researchers have recently discovered that when these areas of our brains light up, other areas go dark.

  但是研究人员最近发现当我们大脑的这些区域变亮的时候，其它区域会变暗。

• only recently have we been able to decipher this mystery, by scanning the brains of people as they process both positive and negative information about the future.

  最近我们才解开了这个奥秘，是通过在人们处理对未来的积极和消极信息时扫描他们大脑的方式解开的。

• but we can help mend brains and minds by removing or reducing stress.

  但是我们可以通过消除或减少压力，来帮助修复大脑和心灵。

• every time a language dies, we lose part of the picture of what our brains can do.

  每当一种语言消失，「我们的大脑能做什么」这幅图像就会因之减少一块。

• intel believes its customers would be willing to have a chip implanted in their brains so they could operate computers without the need for a keyboard or mouse using thoughts alone.

  英特尔认为它的客户将会愿意把一个芯片植入大脑中来操作他们的电脑，这样省去了键盘和鼠标的麻烦，只要用大脑想想就可以了。

• but what permits our brains to turn a chaoticsea of random facts and knowledge into an island of calm understanding?

  但是，是什么让我们的大脑将随机事实和知识的混沌之海，变成平静的认识之岛呢？

• only recently, however, have they come up with proof that brains work this way.

  但是就在最近，他们证明出大脑就是这样工作的。

• all this leads to a better understanding of just how flexible our brains are, and perhaps why we excel at some activities and not others.

  所有的这些，就是为了更好地了解我们的大脑有多灵活，或者解释为什么我们只对某些活动很擅长。

• to that end, the study will do what cannot be done with people — kill some of the monkeys to examine their brains and pancreases.

  为了达到这个目标，研究中需要做一些无法用人来进行的实验——杀掉其中一些猴子来考察它们的大脑和胰脏器官。

相似词

genius（Genius）妙选

intellect智力，理解力；知识分子；思维逻辑领悟力；智力高的人

thinker思想家；思想者

whiz使飕飕作声

wiz奇才；行家

wizard男巫的；巫术的

相反词

blockhead木头人；笨蛋；傻子

dodo渡渡鸟，孤鸽；孤鸽科；过时的东西，迟钝的人

dolt(Dolt)人名；(法)多尔特

dope（俚）酷毙了

dumbbell哑铃；蠢人

dummy人体模型；仿制品；蠢货；假动作；橡皮奶头；（桥牌）明手牌；傀儡；沉默的人；（书的）装帧样本；空包弹；（语法中作修饰语）假代的

dunce傻瓜；劣学生

fathead傻瓜，癡汉；愚钝者

goon(Goon)人名；(瑞典)戈恩

half-wit弱智者；笨蛋

hammerhead锤头状的；鲁钝的

idiot（非正式）笨蛋；白癡；智障人

imbecile低能的；愚笨的；虚弱的

knucklehead蠢人；傻瓜

moron(Moron)人名；(英)莫伦；(法、意、葡、匈)莫龙

nitwit傻子；笨人

pinhead针头；微不足道的东西