Although I racked my brains, I couldn't get the right answer.

尽脑汁也想不出答案。

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

汤姆尽脑汁想记起问题的答案。

Sort of a thinking man's Crazy Eights.

一个大爷尽脑汁变花样呗。

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

那如何分辨对方是否在尽脑汁编造呢？

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

已经尽脑汁想了一天该送你什么。

I racked my brains, trying to remember his name.

【rack】尽脑汁想记起他的名字。

Well it can be the effort we spend trying to work out something difficult.

吧，它以指尽脑汁努力解决困难。

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尽脑汁。

Thankfully, researchers haven't left us hanging.

谢天谢地，研究人员并没有让尽脑汁。

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

你也以“尽脑汁”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.

一直在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，罗斯柯仍然得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，显然正在尽脑汁改变话题，“现在是假期！

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

这是一个很的问题，所有人都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.

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尽脑汁。