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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.
Brainwashing is the act or the process of making someone believe something that is not trueBrainwashing是讓某人相信不是真的事情這個行為或過程 by force, by mixing them up, or by repeating it until they give in用強迫的方式、把人搞得很混亂、或不斷重複到對方投降為止 You can talk about the brainwashing of prisoners你可以說the brainwashing of prisoners（洗腦囚犯） or say a film, a speech, or a news channel is brainwashing people或者說一部電影、一場演講、一個新聞頻道is brainwashing people when you feel it is trying to take over their thoughts當你覺得它想要控制人們的想法的時候
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.
The word still carries the hard, wartime meaning這個字仍然帶著那種嚴酷的、戰時的意思 but people stretch it in everyday complaint the same way they stretch the verb brainwash但人們在日常抱怨裡把它延伸出去，就像他們延伸動詞brainwash一樣 Use it as a noun當名詞用： the brainwashing took monthsthe brainwashing took months（洗腦花了好幾個月） that is just brainwashingthat is just brainwashing（那根本就是洗腦）
Though actually, like , this English word is a copy of Chinese 洗腦. It starts showing up around 1950.
Though actually, like brainwash, this English word is a copy of Chinese 洗腦不過，跟brainwash一樣，這個英文字其實是照中文'洗腦'翻過去的 It starts showing up around 1950大約1950年左右開始出現
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。