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单词 brain candy
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brain candy
brain candy n. (a) (apparently) a type of candy (obsolete. rare); (b) colloquial (originally and chiefly North American) broadly appealing, undemanding entertainment which is not intellectually stimulating; cf. ear candy n. at ear n.1 Compounds 2.
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1895 Bangor (Maine) Daily Whig & Courier 30 Jan. (advt.) Fox & Co. will sell ‘Brain Candy’ the rest of the week for 20 cents a pound.
1968 Chicago Tribune 22 Nov. ia. 5/1 The westerns, spies, and situation comedies that now fill viewers with brain candy.
2003 M. N. Beck Joy Diet x. 217 The same thing goes for every other type of brain candy, from gossipy magazines to silly cartoons to weird websites.
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