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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”.
乔治•帕克把文化之战的残余称作是“已经脑死亡的身体器官神经末梢的痉挛”。
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.
现在下结论还为时尚早，但也预示了我们有可能和之前被判定脑死亡的病人建立某些形式的对话。
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。
麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选
It's--When you're dead, your brain is broken.
你死亡时，大脑也被破坏。
耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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.