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

• On death row, General Krantz is led to the electric chair.
  在死刑房，“将军”被准备执行电刑。
• It was like walking to the electric chair.
  就象上电椅一样。这就是我的感受。
• You will see to it that the cyanide stays out of the aspirin, that the bull doesn't jump the fence, or that your client doesn't go to the electric chair as a result of your incompetence.
  作为药剂师，你要确保***没有和阿司匹林混在一起，作为工程师，你要确保一切都在你的掌控之中，作为律师，你要确保你的委托人没有你的无能而处以电刑。
• 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。
• So I bought her an electric chair.
  于是，我给她买了一把电椅。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。