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

• It was like walking to the electric chair. That's the way it felt.
  这就象是走到死刑电椅上一样，这就是当时的感觉。
• A girl student named Wu Shou-chin became insane after being treated five times in an electric chair.
  有一个名叫吴绶琴的女学生受了五次电刑，以致神经错乱。
• He was sent to the electric chair.
  他被送上电椅处决。
• 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。
• A dentist invented the electric chair.
  电椅是一个牙医发明的。
• 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。
• 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？
• Improvement design of the backrest movement mechanism of electric dental patient chair the policy should be inclined to CHS;
  电动牙科病人椅背靠前后倾机构的改进设计制定医保倾斜政策，促进病人向社区卫生服务机构合理流动；
• It was like walking to the electric chair.
  就象上电椅一样。这就是我的感受。
• So I bought her an electric chair.
  于是，我给她买了一把电椅。