brain drain

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˈbreɪn ˌdreɪn]
• 美式音标 [ˈbreɪn ˌdreɪn]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• 人才外流；智囊流失

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• There are many reasons for domestic talents shortage in India, the most important of which is brain drain.
  造成印度本土人才短缺的原因是多方面的，人才外流严重应该是最主要的原因。
• Science careers can't be switched on and off with funding, and people will leave the country (brain drain) or leave science, never to return.
  科研生涯不会因经费随时开始或结束，人们会离开国家（人才外流）或告别科研，再也不会回头。
• Rich countries are thus likely to benefit from looser immigration policy; and fears that poor countries will suffer as a result of a “brain drain” are overblown.
  因此，富国极有可能从较为宽松的移民政策中获益；而对于穷国将可能承受“人才外流”的恶果的恐惧也是言过其实的。

原声例句

• Another goal is to fight "brain drain" to make sure fellows return home to use their educations.
• "One should work on this and stop sleeping." Russia has also suffered a serious brain drain since 1991, the report says.
• May says that due to expanding private health care in Thailand and limits on foreign doctors working in the country there has been a reverse brain drain;

权威例句

• This has led to a real brain drain nationally, with thousands of high-paying jobs left unfilled.
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词组短语

短语

• brain n drain 人才流失;脑力人才外流;人才外流
• brain -drain situation 人才流失
• A gnawing worry about brain -drain 中译英
• the brain -drain of village teachers 农村教师流失
• Brain -drain crisis management system 人才流失危机管理机制

英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• the situation in which large numbers of educated and very skilled people leave their own country to live and work in another one where pay and conditions are better

柯林斯英英字典

• When people talk about a brain drain, they are referring to the movement of a large number of scientists or academics away from their own country to other countries where the conditions and salaries are better.