Tom racked his brains trying to remember the answers to the questions.

汤姆绞尽脑想记起问题的答案。

How can you tell if someone is heavily editing a text?

那如何分辨对方是否在绞尽脑编造呢？

But the search for ways to unleash creativity seems to scramble executives' brains.

但释放创造力的方法似乎高管绞尽脑。

Thankfully, researchers haven't left us hanging.

谢天谢地，研究人员并没有绞尽脑。

You can also " wring" someone to get more information.

你也可以“绞尽脑”地去套取某人的更多信息。

Yeah. You know, no matter how hard they tried, they could not guess his age.

是啊，不管他怎么绞尽脑都猜不出来他几岁。

I've been racking my brain about why these female friendships always fizzle out.

直在绞尽脑想为什么这些女性友谊总是以失败告终。

It's taken every last ounce of human courage and ingenuity to become masters of the grasslands.

人类绞尽脑 鼓足勇气才成为草原的统领。

You'll be calm and concise, even if you're mentally scrambling for an answer.

即使你在心里绞尽脑答案，你也能保持冷静和简练。

But back in the '30s, Rothko was still thinking too hard to paint like this.

但是回溯到三十年代，罗斯柯仍然得绞尽脑去创作这类作品。

“Look, ” said Ron, obviously casting around for a change of subject, “it's the holidays!

“看，”罗恩说，显然正在绞尽脑改变话题，“现在是假期！

That is a great question, and everybody is scratching their heads and wondering that.

这是个很好的问题，所有人都绞尽脑想弄明白这点。

Sceptics are rolling their eyes, imagining what else the money could have bought.

而持怀疑态度的人则绞尽脑想出这些钱还能买些其他什么东西。

Then I realized how striking this was ... and that I actually had quite a lot to say.

绞尽脑，终于想到了第二天要说的内容。

Jurisdictions across America are wrestling with what to do with their unclaimed dead.

美国各地的司法管辖区都在为如何处理无人认领的死者而绞尽脑。

This problem had been so complicated that philosophers had gone around puzzling over it for generations.

这个问题非常复杂，历代的哲学家都为它绞尽脑。

So I was racking my brains thinking a lot, to rack my brains, about how you would say that in English.

绞尽脑的想了很多，绞尽脑，关于这个用英语怎么说。

In trying to do so they stumbled on an unusual arrangement that had the desired effect.

为此绞尽脑之际，他无意中发现有种非常规的排列布局有很好的效果。

Millions of people are struggling to understand their paychecks or calculate money in shops, campaigners have said.

活动人士表示，数百万的人正绞尽脑想要搞懂自己的工资单、计算购物时到底花了多少钱。

Other playwrights twist themselves into knots trying to observe the unities, but Racine makes it look easy.

为了遵循致性 其他剧作家绞尽脑 但拉辛却把这点变得看起来不那么地费力。