Lynch
[lɪn(t)ʃ] or [lɪntʃ]
解释:
(verb.) kill without legal sanction; 'The blood-thirsty mob lynched the alleged killer of the child'.
费理斯编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) To inflict punishment upon, especially death, without the forms of law, as when a mob captures and hangs a suspected person. See Lynch law.
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同义词及近义词:
v. a. [U. S.] Punish without trial, inflict summary punishment on.
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解释:
v.t. to judge and punish without the usual forms of law.—n. Lynch′-law (Amer.) a kind of summary justice exercised by the people.
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例句:
- It was lynch law of a kind; but in view of the responsibility, this action of the conductor lay well within his rights and duties. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- It could lynch one as a moral monster, when as a matter of fact his ideals were commonplace; it could proclaim one a great benefactor when in truth he was a rather dull old gentleman. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- He does in wars, in racial and religious persecutions; he did in the Spain of the Inquisition; he does in the American lynching. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
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