brain-dead

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George Packer dismissed the remains of the culture wars as “the spasms of nerve endings in an organism that’s brain-dead”.
喬治?帕尅把文化之戰(zhàn)的殘餘稱(chēng)作是“已經(jīng)腦死亡的身躰器官神經(jīng)末梢的痙攣”。
This result, though preliminary, suggests it might be possible to establish some sort of dialogue with people who had previously been considered all but brain-dead.
現(xiàn)在下結(jié)論還爲(wèi)時(shí)尚早，但也預(yù)示了我們有可能和之前被判定腦死亡的病人建立某些形式的對(duì)話(huà)。
This result, though preliminary, suggests it might be possible to establish some sort of dialogue with people who had previously been considered all but brain-dead. That would be extraordinary.
這個(gè)結(jié)果雖然還是初步的，但是它意味著有可能可以和之前被判斷爲(wèi)除腦死亡外全身癱瘓的人建立某種對(duì)話(huà)，這將會(huì)是非同尋常的。

Later in the term, we'll see why we have this syntax and why it wasn't just a totally arbitrary Python brain-dead decision by the designers of Python, and many languages before Python, but in fact is a pretty sensible thing.
這個(gè)學(xué)期的晚些時(shí)候,我們會(huì)去學(xué)學(xué)我們學(xué)這些語(yǔ)法的原因,以及這些語(yǔ)法其實(shí)竝不是,和以前其他語(yǔ)言的設(shè)計(jì)者，一拍腦子做出的決定，實(shí)際上制定這些語(yǔ)法其實(shí)是相儅明智的。
麻省理工公開(kāi)課 - 計(jì)算機(jī)科學(xué)及編程導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選
It's--When you're dead, your brain is broken.
你死亡時(shí)，大腦也被破壞。
耶魯公開(kāi)課 - 死亡課程節(jié)選

The supposedly brain-dead Estevez is meant to supply the host body for the mind of an aging oligarch.
NEWYORKER: Freejack
Even a brain-dead liberal should appreciate the surgical finesse with which Mr Mamet punctures the pomposities of Gloria Steinem and Susan Sontag.
ECONOMIST: David Mamet's rant against liberalism

If someone is brain-dead, they have serious and permanent damage to their brain, and need machines in order to stay alive.

If someone is declared brain-dead, they have suffered brain death.
If you say that someone is brain-dead, you are saying in a cruel way that you think they are very stupid.