brain /breɪn/ star4 CET4 TEM4 (brains)

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  N-COUNT（可数名词） Your brain is the organ inside your head that controls your body's activities and enables you to think and to feel things such as heat and pain. 脑

  例：

  Her father died of a brain tumour.

  他的父亲死于脑瘤。

• 2.  

  N-COUNT（可数名词） Your brain is your mind and the way that you think. 脑筋

  例：

  Once you stop using your brain you soon go stale.

  一旦你停止动脑筋,你很快就会变迟钝。

• 3.  

  N-COUNT（可数名词） If someone has brains or a good brain, they have the ability to learn and understand things quickly, to solve problems, and to make good decisions. 头脑

  例：

  They were not the only ones to have brains and ambition.

  他们并非仅有的有头脑、有抱负的人。

• 4.  

  N-COUNT（可数名词） If someone is the brains behind an idea or an organization, he or she had that idea or makes the important decisions about how that organization is managed. 智囊 [非正式]

  例：

  Mr. White was the brains behind the scheme.

  怀特先生是这项计划后面的智囊。

• 5.  

  （） to rack your brains →see rack