脑 (腦)
nǎo
Pinyin
Definition
脑 (腦)
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- brain
- mind
- head
- essence
Character Decomposition
Idioms (7)
丈二和尚,摸不着头脑
- 1 lit. like a three-meter high monk, you can't rub his head (idiom)
- 2 fig. at a total loss
巴头探脑
- 1 to poke one's head in and pry (idiom); to spy
- 2 nosy
探头探脑
- 1 to stick one's head out and look around (idiom)
提神醒脑
- 1 to refresh and clear the mind (idiom)
- 2 invigorating
- 3 bracing
冲昏头脑
- 1 lit. to be muddled in the brain (idiom); fig. excited and unable to act rationally
- 2 to go to one's head
Sample Sentences
他的脑子也不小,但他的记性却不很精明,他的思想也不很细密。
His head isn't particularly small - however - his memory isn't very good.
我们进食的时候,口腔内部会受到刺激,大脑就会下令分泌能帮助消化食物的唾液,其中又以酸的食物所产生的刺激最为强烈。
When we are eating, we get oral stimulation. Our brain would command the mouth to secrete saliva in order to help digest the food. Among which, sour food induces the most stimulation.
时间一久,就算还没尝到酸的食物,光是想像,大脑也会习惯性地发出信号让口腔内部分泌唾液。
As time passes by, even though we haven't eaten sour food yet, our brain would customarily send signals to make our mouth secrete saliva by simply imagining sour food.
所以每次当我们吃进柠檬、梅子、酸菜等酸的食物的时候,大脑就会下达指令分泌大量的唾液。
As a result, when we are eating lemon, plum, pickled cabbage or other sorts of sour food, our brain would give orders to secrete a big amount of saliva.
他们都在紧张的盯着电脑,好像电脑里有什么让他们牵肠挂肚的事物,
They all nervously stared at their computers, as if on their computers, there was something for them to worry about.
他也享受的是和电脑的合作,不是和左右同事,更不是我。
he didn't enjoy working with his colleagues, and obviously he didn't enjoy working with me. He enjoyed working with the computer.
昨天去一个机构办证件,我去之前已经做好心理准备,脑补了种种情况
Yesterday I went to an agency to process the documents. I was mentally prepared before I went, in my mind, I imagined several scenarios,
7.演讲到一半突然脑子一片空白,他恨不得找个地缝钻进去。
His mind drew a blank halfway though his speech, he wished he could crawl into a hole.
乐广在家中思来想去、东翻西找,最后在客厅一抬头便看见墙上挂了一只弓,弯弯曲曲地像条蛇似的。脑中突然灵光一闪,心想:该不会和这只弓有关吧?于是乐广发挥了科学办案的精神,决定来个案情重组。
Yue Guang racked his brain and searched everywhere at his place. Finally, he looked up in the living room and saw a bow hanging on the wall. The bow looks twisted like a snake. A light bulb went on in his brain, "Could the bow has something to do with this?" He thought. Then he decided to reorganise the case with the spirit of tackling this case using science.
脑子出问题了。
Something went wrong with the brain.