英语释义
1. to try to solve a problem or come up with new ideas by having a discussion that includes all members of a group to discuss a problem or issue and suggest solutions and ideas
Students from Paris, Milan, Tokyo, and New York were invited to the Cambridge campus to brainstorm with MIT students on the marriage of couture and computer.
— Elizabeth Thrasher Engineers are only beginning to brainstorm possible reasons that Polar Lander might have kept silent.
— Sharon Begley — see also brainstorming
2. a sudden bright idea
Another French immigrant to the Quaker City, Eugene Roussel, had a brainstorm that raised the curtain on a new era in the history of carbonated beverages.
— David M. Schwartz
3. the act of brainstorming a group discussion for the purpose of solving a problem or coming up with new ideas
Once the brainstorms are done, however, everyone needs to get their individual pieces of the creative puzzle done as effectively and efficiently as possible.
— Denise Blasevick
4. a harebrained idea
The layout looks as though it is the brainstorm of the art director of a struggling new advertising agency after a three-martini lunch.
— Sloan Wilson
5. a temporary state of confusion a period of unclear thinking
… Smith's rise was interrupted by a brainstorm, a failure of logic, a loss of bearings that will now stay with him for the rest of his life.
— Paul Hayward
6. a violent transient fit of insanity
7. to try to solve a problem by talking with other people to discuss a problem and suggest solutions
8. an idea that someone thinks of suddenly
9. a temporary state of confusion a period of unclear thinking
10. a sudden inspiration or idea