| 单词 | brain truster |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈbrain truster ˈbrain truster n. a member of a brain trust. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > learned person, scholar > [noun] > expert, specialist, authority > group of > member of brain truster1933 think-tanker1966 1933 Emporia (Kansas) Gaz. 21 Apr. 4/4 Arrayed against each other in this conflict are: Brain Trusters: Professor R. G. Tugwell, young assistant secretary of agriculture;..Professor Raymond Moley, assistant secretary of state, chief of the professorial ‘kitchen cabinet’ and Roosevelt's general utility man. 1953 Manch. Guardian Weekly 23 Apr. 2 Foreign Ministers, advisers, and anonymous brain trusters. 1959 R. G. Fuller Danger! Marines at Work! 64 ‘That's the Board of Directors’, Maxwellington said sourly. ‘The battalion brain-trusters’. 1992 Newsweek (Special Election Issue) Nov.–Dec. 61/1 Bush had invited a dozen of his outside brain trusters to the White House for lunch, bonhomie and some postmortem political shoptalk. 2006 K. Mattson in N. Lichtenstein Amer. Capitalism ii. iv. 93 Perhaps the best exemplar of this was Adolf Berle, a Brain Truster and coauthor of the monumental book The Modern Corporation and Private Property. < as lemmas |
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