22-06-09 1. guts: 勇气，魄力 I dont have the guts to ask her out. 我不敢约她。 2. nerve: 勇气，胆量 I wanted to ask her out, but I lost my nerve and couldnt go through with it. 我曾想约她出来，但我失去了勇气，说不出口。 I didnt have the nerve to tell him wha...

22-04-20 6.break ones neck：make a great effort to do something 尽一切努力去做某事 I hope Tom would study harder, because I am breaking my neck to save money to keep him in college. 我希望汤姆可以更用功一点，我想尽一切办法存钱供他上大学。 7.get up the nerve...

21-09-10 表达 lose ones nerve 的意思是 屈服于恐惧和焦虑，失去了做某件事情的勇气，惊慌失措。人们常常用这个表达来劝他人 别害怕：Dont lose your nerve.。 例句 Sarah really lost her nerve when she had to speak in front of a big crowd. She was sick afterwards. 当...

21-06-16 当我们在看牙医时，如果医生碰到了暴露在外的神经 a raw nerve，那么我们会感到剧烈的疼痛。而表达 to touch a (raw) nerve 的意思则是 因谈到了敏感的话题而让人感到难过，也就是我们平常说的 触及到了某人的痛处。 例句 I could tell Id touched a nerve when I aske...

20-10-16 1. What a dagger in the heart! 这话像匕首一样刺到了心里！ 顾名思义，搭配a dagger in the heart或a dagger through the heart（刺在心上的匕首）用来形容听到一句话，就像刀刺入了你的心脏一样，让人痛心。 2. You touched a raw nerve there. 你这话戳到了人家的...

14-10-14 Mummy was very bad. 最毒妇人心。 I think you lost your nerve. 你失控了。 We're both played out. 我们都筋疲力尽了。 Maybe it was her way of telling you to take a desk job. 也许她是在用自己的方式告诉你，应该找一份文职工作了。 I made a judgment call....

14-05-22 A new method of generating mature nerve cells from skin cells could greatly enhance understanding of neurodegenerative diseases, and could accelerate the development of new drugs and stem cell-based regenerative medicine. The nerve cells generated b...

12-06-06 A new model for understanding how nerve cells in the brain control movement may help unlock the secrets of the motor cortex（运动皮质） , a critical region that has long resisted scientists' efforts to understand it, researchers report June 3 in Nat...

12-03-23 Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia（痴呆） may spread within nerve networks in the brain by moving directly between connected neurons, instead of in other ways proposed by scientists, such as by propagating in all directions, according...

12-01-30 Researchers at Oregon Health Science University have discovered that a molecule critical to the development and plasticity（可塑性） of nerve cells - brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) - is severely lacking in brainstem neurons in mutations le...