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

• To undergo execution in an electric chair.
  电刑在电椅上受极刑。
• 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。
• Which way to the electric chair?
  这就要被判死刑了吗？
• 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”。
• 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。
• 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，你要确保氰化物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。
• 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。
• Niggers ought to have their own electric chair.
  黑鬼应该有黑人专用的电椅。
• My god, they'd put you in the electric chair.
  上帝，他们会把你推上电椅。