在他绞尽脑汁地思考着跟“鳄鱼”押韵的词后，他想出了“短尾鳄”。

He came up with the word alligator soon after he ran out of the things to rhyme with crocodile.

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他绞尽脑汁却连一个例子都想不出来。

Racking his brains, he couldn't think of a single example.

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他绞尽脑汁以寻求答案。

He puzzled his brains to find the answer.

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What he concluded was, these pigeons were trying to figure out what makes those pieces of corn come and they started to think well,they had to get the interval between corns right to make this work.

他总结出这些鸽子都在绞尽脑汁,想知道玉米从那来的,它们只能利用,那15秒的间隔去想清楚这个问题

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