• n. 發(fā)達的肌肉；膂力；腌制好的野豬肉

來自zero-grade 詞根br, 燒，烤，同burn, brew. 原指燒牛肉，后指經(jīng)常吃牛肉的人。

brawn

brawn: [14] English acquired brawn from Anglo- Norman braun or Old French braon, which meant ‘flesh, muscle’, but the word’s ultimate origins are not so much a matter of physiological substance as of suitability for cooking and eating. For the source of the French word was Germanic *brādon ‘roast’, which can probably be traced back to Indo-European *bhrē- ‘burn, heat’ (ancestor also of English braise, breath, breed, and brood). Brawn was thus originally a ‘piece of meat suitable for roasting’.
=> braise, breath, breed, brood

brawn (n.)

late 13c., from Old French braon "fleshy or muscular part, buttock," from Frankish *brado "ham, roast" or some other Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *bred-on- (cognates: Old High German brato "tender meat," German Braten "roast," Old Norse brae "raw meat," Old English br?d "flesh"), from PIE *bhre- "burn, heat," from root *bhreu?- "to boil, bubble, effervesce, burn" (see brew (v.)). The original sense is "piece of meat suitable for roasting." "The specific sense 'boar's flesh' is exclusively of English development, and characteristic of English habits" [OED].

1. He's got plenty of brains as well as brawn.

他頭腦聰明，身體強健。

來自柯林斯例句

2. In this job you need brains as well as brawn.

這項工作耗神又耗力。

來自《權(quán)威詞典》

3. In this job you need both brains and brawn.

做這份工作既勞神又費力.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. They relied on brains rather than brawn.

他們靠的是腦力,而不是體力.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. A wanton woman prefers brawn to brains.

蕩婦喜歡肌肉發(fā)達的人甚于頭腦聰明的人.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》