guillotine
发音
英 [ˈgɪləti:n]
美 [ˈɡɪləˌtin, ˈɡiə-]
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- n.
- 断头台
- (切纸的)铡刀
- 切纸机
- (英国议会中)截止辩论以付表决法
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- vt.& vi.
- 在断头台上处死
单词词源
guillotine 断头台,切纸机
来自法国医生Joseph Guillotin,他出于人道主义考虑,在1791年设计了一款高效的断头设备。不幸的是,他的名字被用于这种新型设备的名称,为此,他无数次抗议,但已挡不住这个新名词的流传。
双语例句
- 1. The queen was executed by guillotine in 1793 after the french revolution abolished the monarchy .
- 法国大革命废除了君主制后,王后于1793年躺上断头台。
- 2. But this was increasingly a lost argument once their royal heads started rolling into guillotine baskets .
- 然而,这种说法越来越无法论证:曾几何时,他们王室的头颅开始滚进了断头台的篮子里。
- 3. See place de la concorde , where the guillotine once stood .
- 见协和广场,那里曾经站在断头台。
- 4. That she would lose her head on the guillotine for it , however , seems not only a bit excessive but most likely undeserved .
- 她若是因此上了断头台丢了性命,却似乎不仅有点过分,而且是非常不应该似的。
- 5. Few now would accept that the conquest of roman territory by foreign invaders was a guillotine brought down on the neck of classical civilisation .
- 很少有人会接受这样的观点,外来侵略者征服罗马疆域之举,将古典文明送上了断头台。