grey matter

英 [ˈɡreɪ mætə(r)]

美 [ˈɡreɪ mætər]

n.  (人的)头脑，脑子

牛津词典

noun

• （人的）头脑，脑子
  a person's intelligence

柯林斯词典

in AM, use 美国英语用 gray matter


• N-UNCOUNT 头脑；智力
  You can refer to your intelligence or your brains asgrey matter.
  1. ...an unsolved mathematical equation which has caused his grey matter to work overtime.
     他长时间思考的一道悬而未决的数学方程式

英英释义

noun

• greyish nervous tissue containing cell bodies as well as fibers
  Synonym:gray mattergrey substancegray substancesubstantia grisea

双语例句

• A study from Yale University in the US found that a woman's grey matter grows in the weeks and months after she gives birth.
  美国耶鲁大学研究发现，女人在生产后几周或几个月里，大脑灰质增多了。
• Researchers then performed MRI scans on the adults and it was revealed that new grey matter had formed in the left hemisphere of their brains.
  研究人员又对成人进行核磁共振扫描，表明新的灰质在他们左半脑形成。
• In brain scans, increases in verbal IQ were accompanied by an increase in grey matter in the part of the brain which is activated when you articulate speech, called the left motor cortex.
  通过脑部扫描图可以看出，言语智商的增加伴随着大脑左半球运动皮层灰质的增多，这一区域在人们发声讲话时就会活跃起来。
• Traumatic brain injury and grey matter concentration: A preliminary voxel based morphometry study
  脑外伤和灰质密度：一项基于像素的形态学分析法的初步研究
• Grey matter elements analysis of indoor air quality
  室内空气品质综合评价的灰色物元分析法
• An optimization model of grey matter element analysis of supporting schemes for deep foundation pit and its application
  深基坑支护方案灰色物元分析优化模型及其应用
• Not only was there a significant change in written tests but brain scans confirmed those who had improved their score had more grey matter.
  不仅仅是笔试成绩有明显的变化，脑部扫描也显示，那些得分提高了的学生脑部出现了更多的灰质（灰质是一种神经组织，是中枢神经系统的重要组成部分）。
• We have enough grey matter to discern when the rules are helpful and when they are not.
  我们的脑子足可以分辨规则何时有用，何时不行。
• So people enjoy hitting up the elliptical before working their grey matter, but does exercise actually make people better leaders?
  好吧，人们在开动脑筋前喜欢到健身器械上活动活动，但健身是否真的能让人成为更好的领导？
• The scans revealed that people who most value the company of others have, on average, more dense grey matter in two areas of the brain known as the orbitofrontal cortex and the ventral striatum.
  扫描显示，喜欢和他人相处的人平均来说，在大脑的两个区域，即眼窝前额皮质区（orbitofrontalcortex）和腹侧纹状体区（ventralstriatum），其灰色质密度相对较大。