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腦；大腦
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.
例句
Her father died of a brain tumour.
她父親死于腦瘤。
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頭腦；智力
Your brain is your mind and the way that you think.
例句
Once you stop using your brain you soon go stale...
一旦停止用腦，人很快就會變得遲鈍。
Stretch your brain with this puzzle.
用這個智力游戲鍛煉你的思維能力。
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智力；智慧；頭腦
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.
例句
They were not the only ones to have brains and ambition...
并不是只有他們聰明、有志向。
I had a good brain and the teachers liked me.
我很聰明，老師們都喜歡我。
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智囊；出謀劃策者
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.
例句
Mr White was the brains behind the scheme...
懷特先生是該項計劃的幕后策劃者。
Some investigators regarded her as the brains of the gang.
一些調查員認為她是該團伙的決策者。
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VERB
猛擊…的頭部
To brain someone means to hit them forcefully on the head.
例句
He had threatened to brain him then and there.
他當時就威脅要打爆他的腦袋。
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PHRASE
把…的腦袋打傷；把…腦袋打開花
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.
例句
They stood over him with clubs raised as if to beat his brains out.
他們舉著棍子監視著他，好像要揍扁他的腦袋。
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PHRASE
（用槍）把…的腦袋打開花；射中…的頭部
To blow someone's brains out means to shoot them in the head, killing them.
例句
Give me all your money or I'll blow your brains out...
把你所有的錢都給我，否則我就一槍把你的腦袋打開花。
He blew his brains out with a shotgun.
他用一支獵槍射中了他的腦袋。
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PHRASE
一直想著；對…念念不忘
If someone has something on the brain, they keep thinking about it.
例句
You've had chess on the brain since you were little.
你從很小的時候就對下棋產生了濃厚興趣。
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PHRASE
請教；討教
If you pick someone's brains, you ask them to help you with a problem because they know more about the subject than you.
例句
Why should a successful company allow another firm to pick its brains?
為什么一個成功的企業就得允許別的公司來討教呢？