brainchild

英 [ˈbreɪntʃaɪld]

美 [ˈbreɪntʃaɪld]

n.  (个人或小群体的)主意，发明

复数：brainchilds　

Collins.1 / BNC.19694 / COCA.18305

牛津词典

noun

• （个人或小群体的）主意，发明
  an idea or invention of one person or a small group of people

柯林斯词典

• N-SING 思想结晶；创作成果
  Someone'sbrainchildis an idea or invention that they have thought up or created.
  1. The record was the brainchild of rock star Bob Geldof.
     这张唱片是摇滚歌星鲍勃·格尔多夫的心血之作。

英英释义

noun

• a product of your creative thinking and work
  1. he had little respect for the inspirations of other artists
  2. after years of work his brainchild was a tangible reality
  Synonym:inspiration

双语例句

• A lazy person may be so distrustful of his fellow workers that he is having his brainchild stolen.
  懒人不相信自己的同事，害怕自己的想法被别人偷去。
• The scheme is the brainchild of Arts& Business, which helps businesses sponsor the arts and is turning its attention to individual donors rather than corporate interests.
  这个计划是Arts&Business的创意。该机构帮助企业提供艺术品赞助，目前它正将注意力转向个人捐赠者，而非企业的兴趣。
• The novel plan is the brainchild of the International Rice Research Institute of the Philippines, partnering with Voice of Ho Chi Minh.
  这一创新计划是与胡志明之音合作的菲律宾国际水稻研究所的一项创意成果。
• The project is the brainchild of BIDCO Refineries Ltd, which operates a vegetable oil plant in Jinja.
  这个项目是由BIDCORefineriesLtd公司提出的，它在Jinja运营着一个植物油工厂。
• It's the brainchild of Tim Maltin, a historian who has written three books about Titanic.
  这一理论出自历史学家蒂姆-马丁，他已经写了三本有关泰坦尼克号的著作。
• Afghanistan's former president Burhanuddin Rabbani on Saturday was elected chairman of a new peace council, a Karzai brainchild set up to broker an end to the war.
  阿富汗的前总统布尔汉努丁·拉巴尼星期六被选为新的和平理事会的主席，该和平理事会是卡尔扎伊的脑力劳动成果，它的建立是为了以中间人等身分结束战争。
• Short for'electronic/ electrical/ energy/ electricity'and'ubiquitous,'it is pronounced'u-biq'and is the brainchild of two Malaysian-born entrepreneurs, Yong Choon and Ng Joo Kok.
  Eubiq一词由“电子／电气／电能／电”及“无处不在”两部分组合而成，是YongChoon和NgJooKok这两位马来西亚裔企业家的奇思妙想。
• The lock is the brainchild of CEO Jason Johnson and renowned designer Yves B é har, who also designed the Jawbone fitness tracker and led the design for the One Laptop Per Child project.
  这种智能锁是首席执行官杰森o约翰逊和知名设计师伊夫o贝哈尔的杰作，后者还设计过Jawbone健身追踪器，也是每个孩子一台笔记本（onelaptopperchild）项目的总设计师。
• The electric light bulb is the brainchild of Thomas Edison, the telephone is the brainchild of Alexander Graham Bell, two19th-century American inventors.
  爱迪生发明了电灯泡，贝尔发明了电话，这两人同为19世纪的美国发明家。
• In this feature, Sarah Tomlin reports on the Millennium Villages project, brainchild of Jeffrey Sachs, who heads the UN Millennium Project and the US-based Earth Institute.
  在这篇特写中，SarahTomlin报道了由联合国千年项目和美国地球研究所的负责人JeffreySachs设计出的千年村庄项目。