"Wrack your brains" nghĩa là gì?

Ngồi cả chiều mà chẳng nhớ ra được gì. Photo by Nathan Cowley from Pexels

"Wrack/rack (one's) brain(s)" nghĩa là vắt óc ra nghĩ, cố để nhớ, vật lộn với não để nhớ ra cái gì.

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As fans wrack their brains to figure out who out of the 20 winners might voluntarily (tự nguyện) leave the game, the only person they believe would do it is Sandra.

Few things are more frightening (đáng sợ) than opening your mailbox and finding a letter from the Internal Revenue Service. You may wrack your brain wondering what you've done to receive an IRS notice.

I can’t quite remember how I got the gig but if I extrapolate (ngoại suy) and wrack my brains, I’m sure I’ll find that the pocket dynamo (máy phát điện) that is Mike Ratcliffe was involved in there somewhere!

While epidemiologists (nhà dịch tễ học) continue to wrack their brains and resources over a way to contain and kill COVID-19, what information we do have is based on previous known strains (chủng) of coronavirus, of which there are 6 (4 that are common), according to the CDC.


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