Brain
[breɪn] or [bren]
解释:
(noun.) that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord.
(noun.) mental ability; 'he's got plenty of brains but no common sense'.
(noun.) the brain of certain animals used as meat.
(verb.) kill by smashing someone's skull.
(verb.) hit on the head.
校对:伊薇特--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous or bony cranium of vertebrate animals. It is simply the anterior termination of the spinal cord, and is developed from three embryonic vesicles, whose cavities are connected with the central canal of the cord; the cavities of the vesicles become the central cavities, or ventricles, and the walls thicken unequally and become the three segments, the fore-, mid-, and hind-brain.
(n.) The anterior or cephalic ganglion in insects and other invertebrates.
(n.) The organ or seat of intellect; hence, the understanding.
(n.) The affections; fancy; imagination.
(v. t.) To dash out the brains of; to kill by beating out the brains. Hence, Fig.: To destroy; to put an end to; to defeat.
(v. t.) To conceive; to understand.
卡门录入
解释:
n. the term applied to that part of the central nervous system which in vertebrated animals is contained within the cranium or skull and in the invertebrata to the nervous ganglia near the head end of the body: the seat of the intellect and of sensation: the intellect.—v.t. to dash out the brains of: (Shak.) to conceive of.—n. Brain′-cor′al the popular name of certain kinds of coral so called from their general resemblance to a brain.—p.adj. Brained having brains.—n. Brain′-fe′ver a loose popular term which includes congestion of the brain and its membranes delirium tremens and inflammation of the brain substance itself.—adjs. Brain′ish (Shak.) brain-sick hot-headed furious; Brain′less without brains or understanding: silly.—n. Brain′-pan the skull.—adj. Brain′-sick diseased in the understanding deranged.—adv. Brain′sick′ly (Shak.).—n. Brain′-sick′ness.
阿德莱德手打
娱乐性解释：
To see your own brain in a dream, denotes uncongenial surroundings will irritate and dwarf you into an unpleasant companion. To see the brains of animals, foretells that you will suffer mental trouble. If you eat them, you will gain knowledge, and profit unexpectedly.
手打:默文
娱乐性解释：
n. An apparatus with which we think what we think. That which distinguishes the man who is content to be something from the man who wishes to do something. A man of great wealth or one who has been pitchforked into high station has commonly such a headful of brain that his neighbors cannot keep their hats on. In our civilization and under our republican form of government brain is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
布里茨校对
娱乐性解释：
The top-floor apartment in the Human Block, known as the Cranium, and kept by the Sarah Sisters—Sarah Brum and Sarah Belum, assisted by Medulla Oblongata. All three are nervous, but are always confined to their cells. The Brain is done in gray and white, and furnished with light and heat, hot or cold water, (if desired), with regular connections to the outside world by way of the Spinal Circuit. Usually occupied by the Intellect Bros.,—Thoughts and Ideas—as an Intelligence Office, but sometimes sub-let to Jag, Hang-Over & Co.
录入:沃尔特
例句:
- Can't, indeed,' rejoined Bob Sawyer, 'I wouldn't mind a brain, but I couldn't stand a whole head. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Yes--yes--the end is not so difficult; if I had only a brain active enough to ferret out the means of attaining it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- It is more laborious to accumulate facts than to reason concerning them; but one good experiment is of more value than the ingenuity of a brain like Newton's. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- It was the unhappiness of a fine brain that seeks employment. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Why should the brain be enclosed in a box composed of such numerous and such extraordinarily shaped pieces of bone apparently representing vertebrae? 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- His brain was right; how was his heart? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Such a creature as a reptile has in its brain a capacity for experience, but when the individual dies, its experience dies with it. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- These people were people like ourselves, with brains as busy and moody and inconsistent, and with even less training and discipline. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Led by a woman with her brains between her thighs and a foreigner who comes to destroy you. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- But he had more brains and more inner dignity and outer insolence and humor than any man that he had ever known. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- It will do my brains good to have that mop taken off. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- You've got no brains. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- So far from it, answered the mask, with mysterious earnestness, that, after what has passed, were you to discover me I would blow my brains out. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- Oh, he dreams footnotes, and they run away with all his brains. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- To a feather-brained school-girl nothing is sacred. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- In these streets he met Anitus, the king of the country, and brained him with his club, which was the fashion among gentlemen in those days. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- But you forget: I have not been accustomed to look on Miss Fanshawe in the light of a feather-brained school-girl. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
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