傷soeng1腦nou5筋gan1

English

1. to be a real headache
2. knotty; troublesome; bothersome
3. to find sth a real headache
4. to beat one's brains

粵語 — Cantonese

1. 形容某啲嘢好棘手，令人好苦惱

Examples

• 呢個問題真係傷腦筋。

  That's rather a knotty question.

• 真傷腦筋。

  It really is a headache.

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• “拜个不够行的师父，很伤脑筋吧？”　“我也很笨，所以没关系。”

  "It must bother you to have taken a bad master." "I'm stupid too. So, it's all right."

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