Gallows
['gæləʊz] or ['gæloz]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which a condemned person is executed by hanging.
班尼特手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(pl. ) of Gallows
(n. sing.) A frame from which is suspended the rope with which criminals are executed by hanging, usually consisting of two upright posts and a crossbeam on the top; also, a like frame for suspending anything.
(n. sing.) A wretch who deserves the gallows.
(n. sing.) The rest for the tympan when raised.
(n. sing.) A pair of suspenders or braces.
布兰登手打
解釋/意思:
n. a wooden frame on which criminals are executed by hanging—a pl. used as a sing. and having (Shak.) the double pl. 'gallowses' (used also coll. originally for a pair of braces for supporting the trousers): (Shak.) a wretch who deserves the gallows: any contrivance with posts and cross-beam for suspending objects: a rest for the tympan of a hand printing-press: the main frame of a beam-engine.—ns. Gall′ows-bird a person who deserves hanging; Gall′ows-bitts a frame fixed in a ship's deck to support spare spars.—adj. Gall′ows-free free from danger of hanging.—n. Gall′owsness (slang) recklessness.—adj. Gall′ows-ripe ready for the gallows.—n. Gall′ows-tree a tree used as a gallows.—Cheat the gallows to escape hanging though deserving it.
編輯:希娜
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of seeing a friend on the gallows of execution, foretells that desperate emergencies must be met with decision, or a great calamity will befall you. To dream that you are on a gallows, denotes that you will suffer from the maliciousness of false friends. For a young woman to dream that she sees her lover executed by this means, denotes that she will marry an unscrupulous and designing man. If you rescue any one from the gallows, it portends desirable acquisitions. To dream that you hang an enemy, denotes victory in all spheres.
黛布拉整理
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. A stage for the performance of miracle plays in which the leading actor is translated to heaven. In this country the gallows is chiefly remarkable for the number of persons who escape it.
編輯:基蒂
例句/造句/用法:
- If I shake and tremble, as we pass the gallows, don't you mind, but hurry on. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Some of us found our way to the gallows, and some to Siberia. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- The avidity, the _alieni appetens_[10] is the same; it is the fear of the gallows that makes the difference. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- I think Mademoiselle Lucy will now confess that the cord and gallows are amply earned; she trembles in anticipation of her doom. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- He knows nothing, said Defarge; at least nothing more than would easily elevate himself to a gallows of the same height. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the gallows and the prison? 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- On the top of the gallows is fixed the knife, blade upwards, with its point in the air. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- The mender of roads looked _through_ rather than _at_ the low ceiling, and pointed as if he saw the gallows somewhere in the sky. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Now, young gallows! 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- That fellow will rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and ends on a gallows. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- A pause--then Flo cried out, Bless me, there's a gallows and a man going up. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- The gallows awaits him, and I would do nothing to save him from it. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- We might as well bury it here on the chance that some of us will escape the gallows to come back and enjoy it later. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Some, indeed, do not avoid it; as some do not avoid the gallows. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- You may be in time to save her yet--though it be for the gallows. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- If I shake and tremble, as we pass the gallows, don't you mind, but hurry on. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Some of us found our way to the gallows, and some to Siberia. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- The avidity, the _alieni appetens_[10] is the same; it is the fear of the gallows that makes the difference. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- I think Mademoiselle Lucy will now confess that the cord and gallows are amply earned; she trembles in anticipation of her doom. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- He knows nothing, said Defarge; at least nothing more than would easily elevate himself to a gallows of the same height. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the gallows and the prison? 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- On the top of the gallows is fixed the knife, blade upwards, with its point in the air. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- The mender of roads looked _through_ rather than _at_ the low ceiling, and pointed as if he saw the gallows somewhere in the sky. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Now, young gallows! 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- That fellow will rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and ends on a gallows. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- A pause--then Flo cried out, Bless me, there's a gallows and a man going up. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- The gallows awaits him, and I would do nothing to save him from it. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- We might as well bury it here on the chance that some of us will escape the gallows to come back and enjoy it later. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Some, indeed, do not avoid it; as some do not avoid the gallows. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- You may be in time to save her yet--though it be for the gallows. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
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