lynching

英 [ˈlɪntʃɪŋ]

美 [ˈlɪntʃɪŋ]

v.  用私刑处死(被认为有罪的人，通常为绞刑)
lynch的现在分词
n.  处私刑

复数：lynchings　

法律

BNC.45257 / COCA.15960

柯林斯词典

• VERB 以私刑绞死（某人）
  If an angry crowd of peoplelynchsomeone, they kill that person by hanging them, without letting them have a trial, because they believe that that person has committed a crime.
  1. They were about to lynch him when reinforcements from the army burst into the room and rescued him.
     他们正准备动私刑绞死他时，援军闯入房间把他救下了。

英英释义

noun

• putting a person to death by mob action without due process of law

双语例句

• If a restaurant knows I'm coming, they will either be falling over themselves to pander to my every whim in the most annoying way, or they will organise a lynching party, he says.
  他表示：如果一家餐厅知道我要来，他们要么会忙不迭地以最烦人的方式对我有求必应，要么就会对我百般指责。
• I don't take much stock in this lynching idea.
  我不大重视这种非法折磨人的办法。
• They stop first at a local bar to drink some whisky in order to be prepared for the lynching.
  他们第一次停止在当地酒吧喝威士忌，以便准备私刑。
• Lynching was not always just random violence.
  私刑，不是总是偶发的暴力。
• There is some evidence, for instance, that lynching was more common in the American south when land prices and cotton prices were depressed.
  例如，一些证据表明，当土地和棉花价格下跌时，美国南部的私刑更为普遍。
• This, of course, is an invitation to a lynching.
  这当然会招致毁谤。
• Granting a password-less SSH mechanism for remote host access to typical users is justification enough for a lynching in the eyes of some systems administrators.
  向一般用户授予一个无密码的SSH机制来访问远程主机在一些系统管理员的眼里已相当不可想象。
• He was a victim of lynching.
  他是私刑的受害者。
• Frank was abducted from his jail cell and taken to one of the South's innumerable lynching trees.
  弗兰克被绑架，从他的牢房，并被带到一个南方的无数私刑树木。
• LYNCHING took place recently outside an ironmonger's shop in Nairobi, Kenya's capital.
  近日，在肯尼亚首都内罗毕一家五金商店外，发生了一场私刑。