Guillotine

['gɪlətiːn;,gɪlə'tiːn] or ['ɡɪlətin]

解释:

(noun.) instrument of execution that consists of a weighted blade between two vertical poles; used for beheading people.

(verb.) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; 'The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country'.

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解释:

(n.) A machine for beheading a person by one stroke of a heavy ax or blade, which slides in vertical guides, is raised by a cord, and let fall upon the neck of the victim.

(n.) Any machine or instrument for cutting or shearing, resembling in its action a guillotine.

(v. t.) To behead with the guillotine.

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解释:

n. an instrument for beheading—consisting of an upright frame down which a sharp heavy axe descends on the neck of the victim—adopted during the French Revolution and named after Joseph Ignace Guillotin (1738-1814) a physician who first proposed its adoption: a machine for cutting paper straw &c.: a surgical instrument for cutting the tonsils.—v.t. to behead with the guillotine.—n. Guill′otinement death by the guillotine.

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