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

• Lynching was not always just random violence.
  私刑，不是总是偶发的暴力。
• This, of course, is an invitation to a lynching.
  这当然会招致毁谤。
• It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
  法律无法让一个人爱我，这也许是真的，但法律却能阻止他对我用私刑，而我认为那是相当重要的。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Even Wyoming failed to pass hate-crime legislation in the wake of the Shepard lynching.
  甚至在谢巴德被人用私刑处死之后，怀俄明州也没能通过反仇视罪法。
• He was a victim of lynching.
  他是私刑的受害者。