short circuited 确切的definition？

Littlebush

希拉里最近谈到她曲解FBI director关于她的E-mail的言辞时说I am short circuited，结合语境来看倒是很能用汉语中的“头脑短路”来解释，但我却没有查到该adj的确切含义，而且short circuit的一系列定义也推不出这么个头脑短路的含义来，大家如何看？

elusty

电路短路之后，正常通路就坏了，就不能正常工作，人的脑子短路之后，就不好使了。

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to prevent something such as a career, plan, process, etc. from being successful

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(by extension) to force termination of an ongoing process before its natural conclusion by bypassing one or more intermediary steps