1816, "pertaining to the brain," from French cérébral (16c.), from Latin cerebrum "the brain" (also "the understanding"), from PIE *keres-, from root *ker- (1) "top of the head" (see horn (n.)). Meaning "intellectual, clever" is from 1929. Cerebral palsy attested from 1824, originally a general term for cases of paralysis that seemed to be traceable to "a morbid state of the encephalon." Later used in a more specific sense from c. 1860, based on the work of English surgeon Dr. William Little.
雙語例句
1. His poetry is very cerebral.
他的詩富涵理性。
來自《權(quán)威詞典》
2. Your left cerebral hemisphere controls the right - hand side of your body.
你的左半腦控制身體的右半身.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
3. His mature composi tions are generally considered the more cerebral and crabbed.
他成熟的作品一般被認(rèn)為是觸動(dòng)理智的和難于理解的.
來自《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》
4. The patient died from acute cerebral haemorrhage.
患者死于急性腦溢血.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
5. Washington struck me as a precarious place from which to publish such a cerebral newspaper.