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单词 brainwash
释义
brainwash
verb[T]
disapproving
uk
/ˈbreɪn.wɒʃ/us
/ˈbreɪn.wɑːʃ/
to make someonebelievesomething byrepeatedlytellingthem that it istrueandpreventingany otherinformationfromreachingthem :
对…洗脑；向…强行灌输
Theirgovernmentistryingto brainwash themintothinkingthatwarcannot beavoided.政府正试图对他们进行洗脑，使之认为战争是别无选择的。
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brainwashing
(Definition ofbrainwashfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

brainwash| American Dictionary

brainwash
verb[T]
us
/ˈbreɪnˌwɑʃ,-ˌwɔʃ/
to makepeoplebelieveonly what youwantthem tobelievebycontinuallytellingthem that it istrueandpreventingany otherinformationfromreachingthem:
Could it be that we’re brainwashed toacceptthese things?
(Definition ofbrainwashfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofbrainwash

brainwash
To put it explicitly, experts do notbrainwashjurors the way that machines do.
From theCambridge English Corpus
This is not credible: surely you are better off as a happy brain in a vat or brainwashing victim than as an unhappy one.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Now, rational people can differ over whether a present case is sufficiently similar to brainwashing to be condemned or otherwise rejected.
From theCambridge English Corpus
What if we evaluate our lives favorably only because we have been brainwashed or manipulated?
From theCambridge English Corpus
Imagine someone who has been ' brainwashed ' into believing that he is guilty of some crime.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Burgess provides an allegory on the brainwashing power of recorded music: that in the wrong ' ears', it can invoke anti-social behaviour, stimulate nefarious acts, provide pleasure but also pain.
From theCambridge English Corpus
We must not, it seems to me, be distracted or brainwashed by simplistic rhetoric about bolstering up brutal dictatorships.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
I hope that they will not be as easily brainwashed as some folks are.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
By using the most obscene tricks of misinforming and brainwashing our people, it is also violating the rules of war.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
What is more, the population is being brainwashed with advertising financed by the oligarchs’ millions.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
The solution being proposed is a vast information campaign, or rather an exercise in brainwashing on a continental scale.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
The wonderful thing, however, is that in spite of that brainwashing the steelworkers stood firm.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
I regret to say that it has been brainwashed by a highly misleading document.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
We are all brainwashed, it seems, by the materialist assumptions of our society, concentrating on the physical wellbeing of people.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Those young people have not all been brainwashed.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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