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

• Do you realize that if you go to trial again it means the electric chair if you are found guilty?
  如果你再受审，而被裁决有罪，那你就要坐电椅了，你知道吗？
• 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。
• 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。
• She trying to get me the electric chair already.
  她已经在努力的想让我去坐死刑电椅了。
• 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。
• My god, they'd put you in the electric chair.
  上帝，他们会把你推上电椅。
• Which way to the electric chair?
  这就要被判死刑了吗？
• Said by: James French, a convicted murderer, was sentenced to the electric chair.
  出自：詹姆斯·弗兰彻，杀人犯，他被终身判决为上电椅死刑。
• 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。