Brain

(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

• 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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