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

汤姆绞尽脑汁想记起问题的答案。

Sort of a thinking man's Crazy Eights.

大爷们绞尽脑汁变花样呗。

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

那如何分辨对方是否在绞尽脑汁编造呢？

That's what I've been trying to do all day.

我已经绞尽脑汁想了天该送你什么。

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

但寻找释放创造力的方法似乎让高管们绞尽脑汁。

Thankfully, researchers haven't left us hanging.

谢天谢地，研究人员并没有让我们绞尽脑汁。

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

是，不管他们怎么绞尽脑汁都猜不出来他几岁。

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

我直在绞尽脑汁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.

人类绞尽脑汁 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汁寻找答案，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，罗斯得绞尽脑汁去创作这类作品。

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

“看，”罗恩说，显正在绞尽脑汁改变话题，“现在是假期！

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

这是很好的问题，所有人都绞尽脑汁想弄明白这点。

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汁想找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.

我绞尽脑汁，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汁。

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

这问题非常复杂，历代的哲学家都为它绞尽脑汁。

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

我绞尽脑汁的想了很多，绞尽脑汁，关于这用英语怎么说。

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

为此绞尽脑汁之际，他们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汁想要搞懂自己的工资单、计算购物时到底花了多少钱。