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Change log entry 89429
Processed by: kbaiko (2025-04-20 18:34:12 UTC)
Comment: << review queue entry 81932 - submitted by 'richwarm' >>
I have proposed elsewhere to define 生锈 as

/(of metal) to rust; to become rusty/(fig.) (of a skill etc) to get rusty; to deteriorate/

Ex.
就片論片,這位電影專家的感想是,魯卡斯二十二年沒導戲,技巧生鏽,
Looking at the film on its own merits, Ansen concluded that Lucas's directing skills had gone rusty after 22 years.

熟悉的語言都生鏽了,如今,該遺忘或不該遺忘的,都遺忘了......,
The old language has become rusty, and everything-the things that should be forgotten and the things that should not be forgotten-has slipped from memory,

So I don't think 脑子生锈 needs its own entry.

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I don't think 脑子生锈 is necessarily *ossified* thinking.
(That's probably copied from zdic ("an ossified way of thinking"), and it may have had that narrower sense in the past perhaps.)
https://www.zdic.net/hans/%E8%84%91%E5%AD%90%E7%94%9F%E9%94%88

Ex.
网络流行语“Brain rot”(脑子生锈)获评选为牛津2024年度代表词,反映出当今新世代高度流连网络的生活形态。

对我来说完全是red flag 感觉就是特么同人女当久了脑子生锈了不如去打份工多接触正常人一下.

“脑腐”是一个缓慢而几不可察的脑子生锈过程,而“脑残”是一击致命的脑子病变。
Diff:
- 腦子生銹 脑子生锈 [nao3 zi5 sheng1 xiu4] /lit. brains rusty/ossified thinking/
By MDBG 2025
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