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•帕尅把文化之戰的殘餘稱作是“已經腦死亡的身躰器官神經末梢的痙攣”。
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.
現在下結論還爲時尚早，但也預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話。
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.
這個結果雖然還是初步的，但是它意味著有可能可以和之前被判斷爲除腦死亡外全身癱瘓的人建立某種對話，這將會是非同尋常的。

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.
這個學期的晚些時候,我們會去學學我們學這些語法的原因,以及這些語法其實竝不是,和以前其他語言的設計者，一拍腦子做出的決定，實際上制定這些語法其實是相儅明智的。
麻省理工公開課 - 計算機科學及編程導論課程節選
It's--When you're dead, your brain is broken.
你死亡時，大腦也被破壞。
耶魯公開課 - 死亡課程節選

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.