brain dead

基本解释

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.
当Pond“真正的亲属”——她的姐姐——在午夜前抵达的时候，Janice和小孩可以见到Pond，虽然此时Pond已经脑死亡。
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.
大约三分之一的器官捐献都是来自活体捐献者，剩下的则基本上来自那些已被宣布脑死亡而又在医院接受治疗的人。
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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.
这个结果虽然还是初步的，但是它意味着有可能可以和之前被判断为除脑死亡外全身瘫痪的人建立某种对话，这将会是非同寻常的。

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.
这个学期的晚些时候,我们会去学学我们学这些语法的原因,以及这些语法其实并不是,和以前其他语言的设计者，一拍脑子做出的决定，实际上制定这些语法其实是相当明智的。
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It's--When you're dead, your brain is broken.
你死亡时，大脑也被破坏。
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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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