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

• This is a little piece I like to call "electric chair."
  我称这个为“电椅”，小意思而已
• 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”。
• Research of Electric Massage Chair based on Series of PIC Singlechip Microcomputer
  基于PIC系列单片机的电动按摩椅的研制
• 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。
• Which way to the electric chair?
  这就要被判死刑了吗？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 was sent to the electric chair.
  他被送上电椅处决。
• It was like walking to the electric chair.
  就象上电椅一样。这就是我的感受。