"Be brain dead" nghĩa là gì?

"Be brain dead" = bị teo não -> nghĩa (lóng) là đầu óc mệt mỏi, không tập trung nên làm việc nhầm lẫn, thiếu sót.

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The two experts made their comments in November 2019, after Mr Macron had claimed NATO is "brain dead".

“As a filmmaker who at this moment is attracting the biggest international attention to the Romanian culture and cinema, I consider it would be hypocrisy (đạo đức giả) to accept this decoration since the cinema and its institutional structures are brain dead. From March 2020 till now the authorities not only have refused to address this topic, but moreover have aggravated it by neglect and lack of initiative,” Nanau said in a letter posted on Facebook on 12 January 2021 and widely distributed in the media and on social platforms.

In mid-October, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said that he wanted to show himself two priorities that the World Trade Organization needed. She wants to be able to present an agreement on fisheries subsidies (trợ cấp nghề cá) at the organization’s next ministerial conference – which is currently at a standstill – to demonstrate that the World Trade Organization can still produce multilateral progress. The other priority is to rebuild the dispute settlement body – the WTO Tribunal – which was torpedoed (tấn công bằng ngư lôi, làm tê liệt) by the Trump administration and is brain dead. “I am a candidate for reform,” he said again.

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