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单词 brain
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noun | verb
brainbrain1 /breɪn/ ●●● S2 W2 noun Etymology Collocations 1ORGAN [countable] science, biology the organ inside your head that controls how you think, feel, and move:  The doctors have found a tumor in his brain. The brain has trillions of cells.2INTELLIGENCE [singular] (also brains) [uncountable] the ability to think clearly and learn quickly:  You need brains to do this job. If you used your brain (=tried to think in an intelligent way) you could figure it out. Ted’s got more money than brains (=he doesn’t spend his money wisely).3PERSON [countable] informal someone who is intelligent, with good ideas and useful skills:  Some of the best brains in the country are here tonight. Louis was the brain in our class. see also brain drain4brain dead a)medicine in a state where your brain has stopped working correctly, even though your heart may still be beating b)informal in a state in which you behave stupidly, especially because you are tired:  I was feeling completely brain dead when I wrote that email.5be the brains behind/of something to be the person who thought of and developed a particular plan, system, or organization, especially a successful one:  Silvetti is the brains behind the business.6have something on the brain informal to be unable to stop thinking about something:  You always have food on the brain.[Origin: Old English brægen] see also beat your brains out at beat1 (11), birdbrain, feather-brained, harebrained, pick somebody’s brain(s) at pick1 (8), wrack your brain(s) at wrack1 (1)
noun | verb
brainbrain2 verb [transitive] Verb Table old-fashioned to hit someone very hard on the head
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