Marketers try to brainwash the public through advertising. 货商们企图通过广告给大众进行"洗脑"。
brainwash
[ verb ]
persuade completely, often through coercion
<verb.communication> The propaganda brainwashed many people
submit to brainwashing; indoctrinate forcibly
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brainwash \brainwash\ v. [imp. & p. p. {brainwashed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {brainwashing}] 1. to persuade completely; as, the propaganda brainwashed many people. [WordNet 1.5]
2. to to indoctrinate forcibly or by means of torture, or by constant psychological pressure.
Syn: submit to brainwashing. [WordNet 1.5]
Cyprus wasn't looking to brainwash anyone, insists Mr. Barr, the company's president and chief executive, who was the main architect of the nice-guy philosophy.
"The company's trying to brainwash our members," said Andrew "Lefty" Palm, chairman of a union committee negotiating with Wheeling-Pittsburgh.
Also Monday, Israeli soldiers welded shut the doors of a Palestinian charitable organization, the El Bireh-based Family Welfare Center, and claimed it was being used to "brainwash" children.