brains

inteligencia, coco

Capacidad de pensar con claridad, aprender y resolver problemas.

En inglés sencillo: The ability to think clearly, learn, and solve problems.

• Use your brains!
• She has the brains to solve this problem.
• Success takes both brains and hard work.

Cómo se usa: have the brains to do something (He has the brains to build his own computer.)

Sinónimos: intelligence, cleverness

Antónimos: stupidity

Expresiones frecuentes: use your brains, brains and beauty, have brains

cerebros

Órganos situados dentro de la cabeza que controlan el pensamiento, las emociones y los movimientos.

En inglés sencillo: The organs inside heads that control thought, feeling, and movement.

• Human brains need a lot of energy.
• Scientists compared the brains of several animals.
• Their brains were scanned during the experiment.

Expresiones frecuentes: human brains, animal brains, study brains

cerebro

Persona o personas que usan su inteligencia para planificar y organizar algo.

En inglés sencillo: The person or people who plan and organize something using their intelligence.

• Maya is the brains of the team.
• Who was the brains behind this project?
• The police arrested the brains behind the robbery.

Cómo se usa: the brains behind something (She is the brains behind the new business.)

Sinónimos: mastermind

Expresiones frecuentes: brains behind something, brains of something