pick your brain可不是要摘你脑袋哦！
看到'pick your brain'这个词链儿，我下意识的捂住了自己脑袋。
看了下面这段视频之后，我笑了，原来“pick your brain”是这个意思！
视频源自《小谢尔顿》第二季
精读台词
The man: Now, remember, next week, we start our work on Streetcar Named Desire. So please prepare a monologue for either Blanche or Stanley. Usually, the girls do Blanche and the boys do Stanley, but no judgement, you follow your heart.
The woman: Thank you again for letting me come by to pick your brain.
The man: Oh,please. Anything for the Church.
The woman: Are you a religious man?
The man: I'm an actor. I'm whoever you need me to be.
The woman: All right. As I told you on the phone, I have been asked with mounting this year's Halloween production.
The man: Oh, is that a haunted house kind of deal?
The woman: Yes, but with the goal of bringing people to God.
The man: I do know something about that. When I played Puck in Midsummer, the Tulsa Herald called my perfoemance heavenly.
The woman: Wow! Good for you.
情景解读
视频中，女人正在跟男人请教如何办好万圣节节目。女人在为教堂准备一年一度的万圣节节目。而男人是一位戏剧老师。
词链精解
看完视频和台词，我彻底明白了“pick your brain”这个词链的意思是：向你请教;向你学习；讨教。而不是要去“摘你脑袋”。
所以，当我们想说“请教；讨教”的时候，我们不单单可以用ask XX for advice, 我们还可以用pick one's brain来表达哦！下面我们来造几个句子，来把这个词链的用法学透吧。
例句1：
I would love to pick her brain.
我非常愿意向她请教。
例句2：
I am going to pick your brain for how to deal with a baby who is in her terrible two.
我正想向你请教怎么对付一个正值可怕的两岁的小孩。
例句3：
You can pick my brain from time to time since you are new here.
既然你是新来的，你可以时不时来跟我讨教。
例句4：
Can I pick your brain?
我可以向你请教吗？
词链拓展
跟brain有关的实用表达，我们再来多积累几个吧！
01
brains and brawn 脑力和体力
例句：Taking care of a baby needs brains as well as brawn.
带孩子既需要脑力也需要体力。
02
no-brainer 无需用脑的事；容易的决定；理所当然；显而易见
例句1：No brainer, you can't lose any weight without more exercise and healthy diet.
很显然，你要是不多运动并且健康饮食根本减不了肥。
例句2：As a fresh bird here, picking brain from them is a no-brainer.
作为这里的新手，跟他们请教是理所当然的。
还有一个相似的表达：XX is not brain surgery XX并非难事；XX很容易理解
例句：Look, this isn't brain surgery we're doing here. 听着，我们在这儿做的事又不像大脑开刀那么难。
03
have XX on the brain XX萦绕心头；过分热衷
例句：My daughter has her idol on the brain. How can I deal with her?
我女儿一天到晚就知道追星，我该拿她怎么办呢？
04
addle one's brain 让XX迷糊；让XX困惑；把XX弄糊涂了
例句：Women who are in relationships almost have no brains. Some sweet words could addle their brains.
恋爱中的女人几乎智商为零。一点甜言蜜语就把她们弄糊涂了。
05
be the brains behind/of XX XX的策划组织者
例句：I don't think you're the brains behind this operation.
我觉得你并不是幕后主谋。
06
beat one's brain out 想破脑袋XX；非常努力的思考一件事情；想XX想的脑壳疼
例句：I’ve been beating my brains out all week trying to finish this essay.
我这一周一直在想论文的事情，想的我脑壳疼。
还有一个相似的表达：rack one's brain 苦思冥想；绞尽脑汁
例句：
She racked her brains, trying to remember exactly what she had said. 她绞尽脑汁，想要回忆起她到底说过些什么话。
07
it takes/requires brains to do XX 做XX得花点心思
例句：
It takes brains to deal with a two-year-old baby.
对付一个两岁的小孩是得花点心思的。
词链输出
试试翻译一下下面几个句子，看看今天学习的词链是否都掌握了。
你们在一起这么多年，我觉得你理所当然会嫁给他。
这个求婚计划是我想破脑袋搞出来的。
你一天到晚想着吃垃圾食品，怎么可能有个健康的身体呢？
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I thought it was a no-brainer to marry him since you two had been in a relationship for such a long time.
I racked my brain to come up with the proposing plan./ I have beaten my brain out to come up with the proposing plan.
You have junk food on the brain and how can you have a healthy body?
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