Guillotine
['gɪlətiːn;,gɪlə'tiːn] or ['ɡɪlətin]
解釋/意思:
(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'.
乔治錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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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解釋/意思:
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.
整理:尼古拉斯
娱乐性解釋/意思:
n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.
校對:赛克
例句/造句/用法:
- I will have my hands full keeping your neck from beneath the guillotine. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- How many to the Guillotine to-day? 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- You mean the Guillotine. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- You know it is a capital crime, to mourn for, or sympathise with, a victim of the Guillotine. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- The sharp female newly-born, and called La Guillotine, was hardly known to him, or to the generality of people, by name. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death;--the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine! 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- To the Guillotine all aristocrats! 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- So he guillotined Hébert, who had celebrated the Feast of Reason, and all his party. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He was guillotined--for since the previous August the guillotine had been in use as the official instrument in French executions. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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