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

• Niggers ought to have their own electric chair.
  黑鬼应该有黑人专用的电椅。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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
• 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。