brain

1. N-COUNT 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. 腦

Her father died of a brain tumour. 他的父親死於腦瘤。

2. N-COUNT Your brain is your mind and the way that you think. 腦筋

Once you stop using your brain you soon go stale. 一旦你停止動(dòng)腦筋,你很快就會(huì)變遲鈍。

3. N-COUNT 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. 頭腦

They were not the only ones to have brains and ambition. 他們竝非僅有的有頭腦、有抱負(fù)的人。

4. N-COUNT 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]

Mr. White was the brains behind the scheme. 懷特先生是這項(xiàng)計(jì)劃後麪的智囊。

5. to rack your brains→see rack