brain dead

基本解釋

When Pond's "real relative" -- her sister -- arrived just before midnight, Langbehn and the children were able to see her, though she was brain dead.
當Pond“真正的親屬”——她的姐姐——在午夜前抵達的時候，Janice和小孩可以見到Pond，雖然此時Pond已經(jīng)腦死亡。
About a third of all donated organs are harvested from live donors. Nearly all the rest come from people who have been declared brain dead while undergoing treatment in hospitals.
大約三分之一的器官捐獻都是來自活體捐獻者，剩下的則基本上來自那些已被宣布腦死亡而又在醫(yī)院接受治療的人。
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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為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,以及這些語法其實并不是,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當明智的。
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It's--When you're dead, your brain is broken.
你死亡時，大腦也被破壞。
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Haggis made a similar choice in real life with his best friend, who was brain dead from a staph infection.
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