汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 絞盡腦汁
絞盡腦汁 (绞尽脑汁)
to rack one's brains
Exhausted
用尽心思。
() jiǎo () jǐn/jìn () nǎo zhī
EXAMPLE SENTENCES

他需要绞尽脑汁找到出路。

He needed all his wits to find his way out.

这个难题使我绞尽脑汁

The difficult question tasked my brain.

绞尽脑汁寻找稳妥的话题。

She cast around desperately for a safe topic of conversation.

我们绞尽脑汁寻求解决问题的办法。

We applied our minds to finding a solution to our problem.

绞尽脑汁爬格子,香烟一支接一支。

Cudgel one's brains for climbs grid, cigarette receives.

这样,年轻人废寝忘食,没日没夜,绞尽脑汁,拼命写歌。

In this way, young people forget to eat and sleep, day and night, rack one's brains, write the song desperately.

绞尽脑汁想找点事情消磨时间。

I've been racking my brains to think of some way to kill time.

绞尽脑汁,处心积虑,就是为了让他嫉妒。

I worked myself into a frenzy plotting ways to make him jealous.

我白白地绞尽脑汁想找出一个解决方法。

I have searched my mind in vain to find out a solution.

她整个周末都在绞尽脑汁处理这个问题。

She had spent the whole weekend wrestling with the problem.