brain

brain

英[breɪn]美[breɪn]

n.（头）脑，智力，出谋划策者，聪明的人；

v.猛击…的头部；

复数：brains;

第三人称单数：brains;

过去式：brained;

过去分词：brained;

现在分词：braining;

例句

The human brain is divided vertically down the middle into two hemispheres.人脑从中央垂直地分为两半球。

the temporal cortex of the brain脑的颞皮层

a natural brain opiate天然镇脑剂

He was suffering from a brain tumour.他当时正患脑瘤。

This part of brain judges the spatial relationship between objects.大脑的这部分判断物体间的空间关系。

She died of shock following an operation on the brain.她死于脑手术之后的休克。

The brain is a part of the nervous system of the human body.脑是人体神经系统的一部分。

An imbalance in certain chemicals leads to disturbances in the brain’s function.某些化学成分失衡会道致大脑功能的紊乱。

He sank into a coma after suffering a brain hemorrhage.他在脑溢血后陷入了昏迷。

Twelve hours later she suffered a massive brain hemorrhage.12 小时后她脑部大量出血。

英语六级真题

To reduce or avoid it, researchers have examined the effect of smoking, diet, brain-challenging games, exercise and other strategies.

But by 2014, the death rate from Alzheimer’s Disease for this age group have more than doubled, increasing from 3.8% to 8.5%, making the progressive brain disease the second leading cause of death for centenarians.

But in practice, our brain discounts the risks — and benefits — associated with issues that lie some way ahead.

Are people suffering from gadget overload? Are they exhausted by the consumer equivalent of the brain fatigue—information overload—that is caused by constant updates of devices and online media?As you are probably aware, the latest job markets news isn’t good: Unemployment is still more than 9 percent, and new job growth has fallen close to zero.

The Uses of Difficulty The brain likes a challenge—and putting a few obstacles in its way may well boost its creativity

As the brain attempts to force the unsteady hand to do its bidding, the tension between the two results in a more compressed, psychologically denser expression

Our brains respond better to difficulty than we imagine

One's brain becomes sharp when it is activated.

Their brains become both calmer and sharper.

After a long period, alcoholism can deteriorate the liver, the brain and other parts of the body.

They believe that the nerve endings in the left side of the brain develop faster in girls than in boys, and it is this side of the brain that strongly influences an individual's ability to use language and remember things.

The two sides of their brain develop simultaneously.

According to a report from the Harvard School of Public Health, many everyday products, including some bug sprays and cleaning fluids, could lead to an increased risk of brain and behavioral disorders in children.

Because children's brain and behavioral disorders, like hyperactivity and lower grades, can also be linked to social and genetic factors, it's tough to pin them on exposure to specific chemicals with solid 33 statistical evidence, which is what the EPA re

But in practice, our brain discounts the risks —and benefits — associated with issues that lie some way ahead.

But surely everyone reading this has had times when you lie in bed for hours, unable to fall asleep because your brain is thinking about work.

For example, dolphins, as well as other marine animals, shut down one hemisphere of the brain when they go to sleep.

Half of your brain stays alert and prepared for danger when you sleep in a new place, a study has revealed.

He points to a classic 2004 study in which psychologists at Dartmouth College and Harvard University used functional MRI to track brain activity in 17 young men as they listened to descriptions of people while concentrating on either socially relevant cue

If after work you lie around on your bed and get irritated by political commentary on your phone or get stressed thinking about decisions about how to renovate your home, your brain has not received a break from high mental arousal states.

In a 2011 study, Steinberg and his colleagues turned to functional MRI to investigate how the presence of peers affects the activity in the adolescent brain.

In studies, he gave subjects a chance to deceive for monetary gain while examining their brains in a functional Mri machine, which maps blood flow to active parts of the brain.

It was specifically observed that the left side of the brain was more active during deep sleep.

Moreover, understanding the brain is not the same as understanding the mind.

Now, a company in Massachusetts says that by using magnetic brain scans, they can determine with 97% accuracy whether someone is telling the truth.

Recent research has also shown that indulging in a high-fat and high-sugar diet may have negative effects on your brain, causing learning and memory deficits.

Researchers from Brown University found that a network in the left hemisphere of the brain "remained more active" than the network in the right side of the brain.

So, while there may be insights to be gained from matching behavior to brain activity, those insights will I not necessarily lead to justice in a court of law.

Some previous studies have suggested that challenging your brain with mentally stimulating activities might help.

The amygdala is a crucial part of the brain that produces fear, anxiety and emotional responses including that sinking, guilty feeling you get when you lie.

The developing brain, the report says, is particularly vulnerable to the toxic effects of certain chemicals these products may contain, and the damage they cause can be permanent.

The researchers believe this is the first time that the "first night- effect" of different brain states has been identified in humans.

The researchers explained that the study demonstrated when we are in a novel environment the brain partly remains alert so that humans can defend themselves against any potential danger.

These differences may elicit different brain responses.

They should also be sceptical of the growing tendency to try to reduce all human traits and actions to the level of brain activity.

To do this successfully, their brain prompts them to think and even obsess about others.

without keeping the brain active while sleeping, they would probably drown.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

N-COUNT

脑；大脑

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.

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头脑；智力

Your brain is your mind and the way that you think.

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智力；智慧；头脑

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.

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智囊；出谋划策者

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.

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VERB

猛击…的头部

To brain someone means to hit them forcefully on the head.

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PHRASE

把…的脑袋打伤；把…脑袋打开花

To beat someone's brains out or bash their brains in means to hit their head very hard, so that they are badly injured or killed.

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PHRASE

（用*）把…的脑袋打开花；射中…的头部

To blow someone's brains out means to shoot them in the head, killing them.

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PHRASE

一直想着；对…念念不忘

If someone has something on the brain, they keep thinking about it.

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PHRASE

请教；讨教

If you pick someone's brains, you ask them to help you with a problem because they know more about the subject than you.

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英汉词典释义

n.

脑, 脑髓

智慧, 智力

聪明的人；有智慧的人

（群体中）*聪明的人；策划组织者

vt.

猛击…的脑袋致死

英英词典释义

Noun

1. that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord

2. mental ability;

3. that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason;

4. someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality;

5. the brain of certain animals used as meat

Verb

1. hit on the head

2. kill by smashing someone's skull

行业词典

动物学： 脑, 又称 :脑(encephalon )；

医学： 脑,中枢神经系统位于颅内的部分，包括前脑、中脑和菱脑；脑从胚胎神经管前部衍变(发育)而来。又称encephalon ；

哲学： 头脑风暴法, brain-storming method；

心理学： 脑；

药学： 脑, 奇恒之腑之一，位于颅内，由髓汇聚而成，为神明汇聚之所，有支配精神意识，进行思维活动的功能。；