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

• As professor Wafaa Bilal's brainchild, the camera can take still pictures at one-minute intervals.
  瓦法阿-比埃尔教授所设想的这个摄像头可以一分钟间隔拍摄静态照。
• 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。
• The chair is the brainchild of Japanese company UniCare – they're selling the product for 46,000 yen ($ 419) at the International Home Care and Rehabilitation Exhibition in Tokyo.
  这个椅子是日本UniCare公司的产品&在东京巨型的家庭护理和康复展览会上，这款产品的价格是46000日元，相当于419美元。
• It is important to remember that the idea of "one country, two systems" was not the brainchild of Hong Kong or london, but of china.
  大家必须紧记，「一国两制」的构想，并非源自香港，也非源自伦敦，而是来自中国。
• The brainchild of the engineer will save us a lot of time and energy.
  这位工程师的设想将使我们节省许多时间和精力。
• It was my brainchild and I'd like to see the job through to the end.
  这是我的设想，因而我想看到任务完成。
• 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。
• We need the same shorthand in policy, a quality kite-mark that tells us politicians have actually done some homework before they roll out their latest brainchild.
  我们需要对政策进行同样的提炼，打上一个质量证明标记，告诉我们最新的政策出炉之前，政客们真的做过一些准备。
• The R-core transformers are ideal transformers making the most of R-core, the brainchild of Kitamura Kiden, which is a non-cut Core with a round section.
  型铁心变压器为使用了北村机电发明的圆形无断面切割R型铁心的变压器。
• The oath is the brainchild of a group of Harvard MBA students worried about taking their degrees out into a world that holds much of senior management in contempt.
  誓言是一群哈佛MBA学生的心血结晶。他们担心拿到MBA学位后，进入的却是一个大部分高级管理人员都为人不齿的世界。