brain-dead

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An unintelligent person. derogatory,informal
    — "What makes you different from all the other brain-deads that come through here?"
形容词 adj.
  1. Having an irreversible loss of brain function and cessation of brain activity. not-comparable
    — An employee of the mayor's office was declared brain-dead on Sunday morning after she and another woman were struck by a hit-and-run driver while crossing Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, the authorities said.
  2. Having no useful thoughts; stupid; ditzy. colloquial,derogatory
    — "AI has been brain-dead since the 1970s," said AI guru Marvin Minsky in a recent speech at Boston University. Minsky co-founded the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 1959 with John McCarthy.

词形变化

more brain-dead comparative most brain-dead superlative brain dead alternative braindead alternative brain-deads plural brain dead alternative braindead alternative

词源

词源 1
From brain + dead. Coined by the Harvard physician Henry K. Beecher in the historical context of the Sixties counterculture and life extension technology of the late twentieth century.
词源 2
From brain + dead. Coined by the Harvard physician Henry K. Beecher in the historical context of the Sixties counterculture and life extension technology of the late twentieth century.
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