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单词 brain-dead
释义
brain-dead
adjective
uk
/ˈbreɪn.ded/us
/ˈbreɪn.ded/
If someone is brain-dead, they haveseriousandpermanentdamagetotheirbrain, and needmachinesinordertostayalive.
脑死亡的
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If someone is brain-dead,theirmindis notworkingeffectively, usually because they are verytiredor verybored:
（尤指因疲劳或烦恼而造成的）头脑不灵敏，愚钝
By thetimeIleaveworkI'mcompletelybrain-dead.到下班时，我的头脑都迟钝了。
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Tired and making tired
Bore and bored
(Definition ofbrain-deadfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

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That evening, with the husband present at his wife's side, the treating physician disconnected the ventilator from thebrain-deadwoman.
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You can bebrain-deadthough you are still alive.
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If the primary care physician did not know the proper "care" for abrain-deadindividual, there were many physicians in the state who did.
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It is rather the relentless hammering of like-minded ideas that renders the readerbrain-deadat the end.
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In 1997, after government efforts to solicit public opinion and to educate the public about the procedure, a law was passed legalizing organ transplants frombrain-deadbodies.
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He was extricated from his car and transferred to hospital in a coma after having had cardiac arrest, where he later was diagnosedbrain-dead.
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Nonetheless, other reviewers complained about thebrain-deadeasy puzzles and bosses requiring basic strategy at best.
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He advertises an offer of a million dollars for the donation of a body from abrain-deadpatient.
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The donor had been declaredbrain-deadbefore the operation.
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He said that the test would allow us to avoid the possibility of abrain-deadcandidate.
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Through technological advances, the government duplicates the personality of the agent (who remains unnamed throughout the series) and implants him into fourbrain-deadhost bodies.
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The sixth class is now used for declaredbrain-deadorgan donors.
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If abrain-deadindividual is not an organ donor, ventilator and drug support is discontinued and cardiac death is allowed to occur.
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Some rabbis prohibit removal of an organ from abrain-deadpatient, making it impossible to perform heart transplants.
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A triangle of face tissue, including the nose and mouth, was taken from abrain-deadfemale donor and grafted onto the patient.
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