- 1洗腦（指那套手法或過程；英文約 1950 年才從中文「洗腦」借過去）
Brainwashing is the act or the process of making someone believe something that is not true, by force, by mixing them up, or by repeating it until they give in. You can talk about the brainwashing of prisoners, or say a film, a speech, or a news channel is brainwashing people when you feel it is trying to take over their thoughts. The word still carries the hard, wartime meaning, but people stretch it in everyday complaint the same way they stretch the verb . Use it as a noun: the brainwashing took months; that is just brainwashing. Though actually, like , this English word is a copy of Chinese 洗腦. It starts showing up around 1950.
組成brain + washing. A calque of Chinese 洗腦, literally “wash brain”. First English use appears around 1950.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
brainwashingnoun
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A form of indoctrination that forces people to abandon their beliefs in favour of another set of beliefs by conditioning through various forms of pressure or torture.
- So it came about, through Pavlov's work, that the Soviets developed and perfected the 'brain-washing' technique seen to be so effective in the state trials of the 1930s. An amazed world witnessed the sight of intelligent and renowned figures genuinely confessing to criminal acts against the state, or voicing ideological dogma in a total reversal of their previously held values.
- All new prisoners were assigned to "study groups" or "introductory teams" that were responsible for applying a variety of brain-washing techniques designed to break down all old beliefs and attitudes and replace them with Communist-Socialist thoughts.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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