英语释义
1. an institute, corporation, or group organized to study a particular subject (such as a policy issue or a scientific problem) and provide information, ideas, and advice
an information technology think tank … was responsible for the armies of new political-action committees, lobbyists and rightward think tanks that poured into Washington to counter the consumer and environmental movements he helped to inspire.
— Jonathan Rowe
2. an organization that consists of a group of people who think of new ideas on a particular subject or who give advice about what should be done