electric chair
英 [ɪˌlektrɪk ˈtʃeə(r)]
美 [ɪˌlektrɪk ˈtʃer]
n. (尤指美国处决犯人的)电椅，电刑
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- He was sent to the electric chair.
他被送上电椅处决。 - They face death by the electric chair.
他们面临着被电刑处死。
- He was sent to the electric chair.
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
- the murderer was sentenced to die in the chair
双语例句
- Which way to the electric chair?
这就要被判死刑了吗？ - This is a little piece I like to call "electric chair."
我称这个为“电椅”，小意思而已 - So I bought her an electric chair.
于是，我给她买了一把电椅。 - He is not unlike those condemned persons who have to be carried to the guillotine or the electric chair because they drag their feet.
他和那些拖拖拉拉不得不被架上绞刑架或电椅的死刑犯相比没什么不同。 - Lethal injection's three-drug cocktail was proposed in1977 by an Oklahoma medical examiner and anesthesiologist as a cheaper and more humane alternative to the electric chair.
致命注射的三种药物是由俄克拉何马州医学审查员，麻醉学者在1977年提出。 - 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。 - 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。 - He then put his name behind an effort to use AC to power the first electric chair.
随后，他又倡导把交流电用在美国第一把执行死刑的电椅上。 - To undergo execution in an electric chair.
电刑在电椅上受极刑。