| 词汇 | brainwashing |
| 词源 | brainwashing. Brainwashing was coined during the Korean War, when a number of American prisoners of war violated military codes after being captured, imprisoned, interrogated, and tortured by the North Koreans and Chinese. The vivid term is not an Americanism, however, being a direct transla- tion of the Mandarin Chinese hsi, “to wash,” and nao, “brain.” See chinese language contributions to english. |
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