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

• 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。
• 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。
• However, his dream is not long, and when he took the electric chair just escaped to the prison due to act too obvious, immediately caught back execution.
  可是，他好梦不长，当他带着电椅刚逃到监狱门口时，由于行动太明显，随即被捉回来执行死刑。
• To undergo execution in an electric chair.
  电刑在电椅上受极刑。
• A dentist invented the electric chair.
  电椅是一个牙医发明的。
• On death row, General Krantz is led to the electric chair.
  在死刑房，“将军”被准备执行电刑。
• 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。
• 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；