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
- He was sent to the electric chair.
他被送上电椅处决。 - Lethal injection's three-drug cocktail was proposed in1977 by an Oklahoma medical examiner and anesthesiologist as a cheaper and more humane alternative to the electric chair.
致命注射的三种药物是由俄克拉何马州医学审查员,麻醉学者在1977年提出。 - 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。 - Which way to the electric chair?
这就要被判死刑了吗? - 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。 - To undergo execution in an electric chair.
电刑在电椅上受极刑。 - Said by: James French, a convicted murderer, was sentenced to the electric chair.
出自:詹姆斯·弗兰彻,杀人犯,他被终身判决为上电椅死刑。 - 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? - So I bought her an electric chair.
于是,我给她买了一把电椅。 - It was like walking to the electric chair.
就象上电椅一样。这就是我的感受。