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单词 brain-damaged
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brain-damaged


brain damage

n. Injury to the brain that is caused by various conditions, such as head trauma, inadequate oxygen supply, infection, or intracranial hemorrhage, and that may be associated with a behavioral or functional abnormality.
brain′-dam′aged (-dăm′ĭjd) adj.

brain-damaged

adj (Medicine) suffering from brain damage
Translations

brain-damaged


brain-damaged

(1)[generalisation of "Honeywell Brain Damage" (HBD), atheoretical disease invented to explain certain uttercretinisms in Honeywell Multics] Obviously wrong; cretinous;demented. There is an implication that the personresponsible must have suffered brain damage, because he shouldhave known better. Calling something brain-damaged is reallybad; it also implies it is unusable, and that its failure towork is due to poor design rather than some accident. "Onlysix monocase characters per file name? Now *that's*brain-damaged!"

brain-damaged

(2)[especially in the Mac world] May refer to freedemonstration software that has been deliberately crippled insome way so as not to compete with the commercial product itis intended to sell. Synonym crippleware.
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