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词汇 mind-bending
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Definition of mind-bending in English:

mind-bending

adjective
informal
  • (chiefly of a psychedelic drug) influencing or altering one's state of mind.

    〈非正式〉(尤指迷幻药)使人知觉不正常的;使人精神恍惚的,使人精神错乱的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The juxtaposition of the horrible imagery coming directly from the victim's recollections, to the obvious innocence of the parties involved makes for a mind-bending experience.
    • Einstein's 1905 paper, along with another one he published in 1915, painted an entirely different and mind-bending picture.
    • The game lacks any kind of flow due to the often mind-bending puzzles and silly dialogue sequences.
    • A psychedelic pop tune, ‘The Test’ shakes off a troublesome start to find an intoxicating groove and mind-bending melodies.
    • A Ph.D. is a long, weird and mind-bending experience, and bureaucracies generally are sympathetic about this fact.
    • But, like Jim Isermann's mind-bending geometric rug works, Leachman's paintings transcend the usual categories.
    • This manga-based masterpiece steams ahead on so many levels and with so much depth, detail and mind-bending imagery that your brain barely has time to catch up with itself.
    • An armed robber is appealing against his conviction claiming that he was high on a mind-bending cocktail of drugs when he confessed to police.
    • These are, of course, just a sampling of the countless mind-bending and brain-boggling phenomena that have kept astrophysicists busy for the past hundred years.
    • Certainly, the implications are mind-bending.
    • From then on the album takes a beautifully mind-bending trip through some intimate, yet uplifting soundscapes that provide near-perfect therapy for our stressed out routines.
    • This mind-bending mix of music is known as free form, a style pioneered in the 70's that mixes musical genres and styles to create a unique style of its own.
    • And it's such a mind-bending, far-out trip that once-radical modernism comes to seem rather tame and dowdily down-to-earth.
    • That living coast is the thing that draws me back to Torquay year after year, whereas once I'd witnessed the mind-bending beauty of Mauritius and the Maldives, I had no desire to do it again.
    • What a radical, grand mind-bending thought that is.
    • But what's more mind-bending is what she does with this.
    • Although it introduces a host of mind-bending economic theories, the movement for sustainable economies includes more than a little whimsy.
    • Instead of taking that defeatist attitude, I prefer to valiantly soldier on and find new music that's 100 times more psychedelic or mind-bending.
    • I think that's totally mind-bending and awesome.
    • This is weird, transgressive, mind-bending cinema, reminiscent of silent-era German expressionism, and seasoned with Hollywood musical parody.

Derivatives

  • mind-bender

  • noun ˈmʌɪndˌbɛndəˈmaɪndˌbɛndər
    informal
    • In any case, puzzle fanatics will enjoy the many riddles, illusions, cryptograms and other mind-benders offered for analysis.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The Life of David Gale is a cut above the average brain dead thriller, but it's not a mind-bender on par with the likes of Memento.
      • ‘Let It Be Me’ is a real mind-bender: a jangly, roots-acoustic slab of mica that comes out of nowhere.
      • Another challenge is a bit of a mind-bender: While China's labor costs are dirt cheap, the overall cost of bolting a car together there is anything but.
      • USA Today opined that ‘not since Memento has a movie served up such a provocative mind-bender, and the Sundance winner by first-time filmmaker Andrew Jarecki has the advantage of being true’.
  • mind-bendingly

  • adverb
    informal
    • After all, it's realism in all of its mind-bendingly annoying detail that drove us through the cinema doors in the first place.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Don't spend the night getting mind-bendingly drunk on a mixture of red wine and Scotch.
      • None of those words is quite superlative enough to describe how mind-bendingly horrible these two episodes really are.
      • If all of this sounds mind-bendingly tedious on paper, it's surprising just how engrossing it is in practice.
      • Ham gets all glum about the circumstances and talks to himself a great deal in mind-bendingly long non-internal monologues.

Definition of mind-bending in US English:

mind-bending

adjectiveˈmaɪnd ˈˌbɛndɪŋ
informal
  • (chiefly of a hallucinogenic drug) influencing or altering one's state of mind.

    〈非正式〉(尤指迷幻药)使人知觉不正常的;使人精神恍惚的,使人精神错乱的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A Ph.D. is a long, weird and mind-bending experience, and bureaucracies generally are sympathetic about this fact.
    • This mind-bending mix of music is known as free form, a style pioneered in the 70's that mixes musical genres and styles to create a unique style of its own.
    • Einstein's 1905 paper, along with another one he published in 1915, painted an entirely different and mind-bending picture.
    • An armed robber is appealing against his conviction claiming that he was high on a mind-bending cocktail of drugs when he confessed to police.
    • What a radical, grand mind-bending thought that is.
    • Although it introduces a host of mind-bending economic theories, the movement for sustainable economies includes more than a little whimsy.
    • A psychedelic pop tune, ‘The Test’ shakes off a troublesome start to find an intoxicating groove and mind-bending melodies.
    • These are, of course, just a sampling of the countless mind-bending and brain-boggling phenomena that have kept astrophysicists busy for the past hundred years.
    • The game lacks any kind of flow due to the often mind-bending puzzles and silly dialogue sequences.
    • That living coast is the thing that draws me back to Torquay year after year, whereas once I'd witnessed the mind-bending beauty of Mauritius and the Maldives, I had no desire to do it again.
    • From then on the album takes a beautifully mind-bending trip through some intimate, yet uplifting soundscapes that provide near-perfect therapy for our stressed out routines.
    • But, like Jim Isermann's mind-bending geometric rug works, Leachman's paintings transcend the usual categories.
    • Instead of taking that defeatist attitude, I prefer to valiantly soldier on and find new music that's 100 times more psychedelic or mind-bending.
    • And it's such a mind-bending, far-out trip that once-radical modernism comes to seem rather tame and dowdily down-to-earth.
    • But what's more mind-bending is what she does with this.
    • This is weird, transgressive, mind-bending cinema, reminiscent of silent-era German expressionism, and seasoned with Hollywood musical parody.
    • This manga-based masterpiece steams ahead on so many levels and with so much depth, detail and mind-bending imagery that your brain barely has time to catch up with itself.
    • Certainly, the implications are mind-bending.
    • The juxtaposition of the horrible imagery coming directly from the victim's recollections, to the obvious innocence of the parties involved makes for a mind-bending experience.
    • I think that's totally mind-bending and awesome.
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