electric chair

英 [ɪˌlektrɪk ˈtʃeə(r)]

美 [ɪˌlektrɪk ˈtʃer]

n.  (尤指美国处决犯人的)电椅，电刑

法律

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
  1. He was sent to the electric chair.
     他被送上电椅处决。
  2. They face death by the electric chair.
     他们面临着被电刑处死。

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
  1. the murderer was sentenced to die in the chair
  Synonym:chairdeath chairhot seat

双语例句

• When I get through with you, you'll be begging for the electric chair!
  我抓到你，你就会求我让你上电椅。
• A dentist invented the electric chair.
  电椅是一个牙医发明的。
• 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。
• So I bought her an electric chair.
  于是，我给她买了一把电椅。
• If being ugly were a crime, you'd get the electric chair.
  如果长得丑是一种罪的话，那你就应该被电刑处死。
• To undergo execution in an electric chair.
  电刑在电椅上受极刑。
• 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？
• In his scheme, he fled to flee to the Mexican border, and will make the electric chair "travel" sale.
  在自己的逃跑计划中，他打算逃到墨西哥边境，然后将这把电椅出售挣点“路费”。
• 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。
• He recorded mutilated bodies pinioned under car wrecks, a suicide splattered on a New York street and the electric chair, in paintings saturated in ethereal colours-silver, blue, green.
  沃霍尔的绘画以银、蓝、绿为主，在车轮底下被支离破碎的尸体、血溅纽约大街的自杀者、以及死于电椅的酷刑等充斥着他的作品。