electric chair
英 [ɪˌlektrɪk ˈtʃeə(r)]
美 [ɪˌlektrɪk ˈtʃer]
n. (尤指美国处决犯人的)电椅,电刑
牛津词典
noun
- (尤指美国处决犯人的)电椅,电刑
(especially in the US) a chair in which criminals are killed by passing a powerful electric current through their bodies; the method of execution which uses this chair- He was sent to the electric chair.
他被送上电椅处决。 - They face death by the electric chair.
他们面临着被电刑处死。
- He was sent to the electric chair.
柯林斯词典
- (尤指美国处决犯人的)电椅,电刑
The electric chairis a method of killing criminals, used especially in the United States, in which a person is strapped to a special chair and killed by a powerful electric current.
英英释义
noun
- an instrument of execution by electrocution
- the murderer was sentenced to die in the chair
双语例句
- This is a little piece I like to call "electric chair."
我称这个为“电椅”,小意思而已 - Niggers ought to have their own electric chair.
黑鬼应该有黑人专用的电椅。 - In his scheme, he fled to flee to the Mexican border, and will make the electric chair "travel" sale.
在自己的逃跑计划中,他打算逃到墨西哥边境,然后将这把电椅出售挣点“路费”。 - When I get through with you, you'll be begging for the electric chair!
我抓到你,你就会求我让你上电椅。 - Accounts of murderers dying in the electric chair fascinated me, and I kept close track of last meals ordered by condemned men.
杀人犯死在电椅上的描述很使我着迷,我还很留意死囚的最后一餐所点的饭菜。 - Do you realize that if you go to trial again it means the electric chair if you are found guilty?
如果你再受审,而被裁决有罪,那你就要坐电椅了,你知道吗? - However, his dream is not long, and when he took the electric chair just escaped to the prison due to act too obvious, immediately caught back execution.
可是,他好梦不长,当他带着电椅刚逃到监狱门口时,由于行动太明显,随即被捉回来执行死刑。 - A girl student named Wu Shou-chin became insane after being treated five times in an electric chair.
有一个名叫吴绶琴的女学生受了五次电刑,以致神经错乱。 - To undergo execution in an electric chair.
电刑在电椅上受极刑。 - With strong evidence against him, Lincoln is sentenced to death by electric chair.
由于有确凿证据对其不利,林肯被处以电椅极刑。