gibbet

美 [ˈdʒɪbɪt]英 [ˈdʒɪbɪt]
  • n.绞刑架;绞台
  • v.绞死;把(某人)吊在示众架上;使出丑

复数: gibbets

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noun

old-fashioned绞刑架;绞台
a vertical wooden structure on which criminals used to be hanged

gallows

gibbet

频次

  • 1
    N-COUNT 同gallow
    A gibbet is a gallows .

noun

1
alternative terms for gallows
Synonym: gallows tree gallows-tree gallous

verb

1
expose to ridicule or public scorn
Synonym: pillory
2
hang on an execution instrument

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  1. Another example comes complete with a picture of a gibbet and dangling corpse .

    另一个例子则完全是一副绞刑架和一具摇晃的尸体。

  2. I see a world at peace , a world on which the gibbet 's shadow does not fall .

    我看见的是一个太平的世界,没有任何绞刑架投下可怕的阴影。

  3. Outside the town a large gibbet had been erected , round which stood the soldiers and several thousands of people .

    在城外面,一架高大的绞架已经竖起来了。它的周围站着许多兵士和成千成万的老百姓。

  4. The presence of this gibbet sufficed to render gloomy all the surrounding places .

    那刑台的存在足以使那一带显得阴森恐怖。

  5. And so both he and his sons were hanged upon gibbets .

    就判处他和他的儿子们悬在刑架上。

  6. But we could not risk another mutiny ; and to take them home for the gibbet would have been a cruel sort of kindness .

    但我们不能冒险让船上再发生一次叛乱,而且将他们带回去送上绞架似乎也不是什么仁慈之举。

  7. Add the crosses of carved stone , more lavishly scattered through the squares than even the gibbets ;

    此外,还可以加上十字街头那些多过绞刑架的饰有雕像的石十字架;

  8. When you hang from a gibbet for the sport of your own crows , we shall have peace .

    当你挂在一个拉倒对这项运动的你自己的乌鸦,我们就有平安。

  9. We passed the desiccated corpse of a brigand hanging on a gibbet .

    我们路过一具悬在绞刑架上的土匪干尸。

  10. The murderer who is dragged to the gibbet and the polished sabbath-breaker are one in the sight of God .

    在上帝眼中,被拖上绞刑台的凶手与优雅破坏安息日的人无分轩轾。

  11. The criminals were hanged on the gibbet .

    罪犯被推上绞架吊死。

  12. On the other side stood a gibbet , a decaying corpse dangling from it by a worn hemp rope .

    路的另一边立着一个绞刑架,用麻绳挂在架子上的腐尸正微微的摆动着。

  13. I warn you that you will be quiet & When the curfew of fear and the gibbet of unemployment make you obedient .

    如果恐惧的宵禁和失业的绞架使你们俯首帖耳,我警告你们:你们将噤若寒蝉。

  14. The contraband salt dealer escapes the royal gibbets , and with a rope 's end round his neck , mounts the white cockade .

    私盐商贩们逃脱了王室的绞刑架,颈子上的绞索还没有解下来,便又戴上白帽微。

  15. A cabinetmaker and a designer of gibbets .

    他是一个木匠,同时也是绞刑架的设计者。

  16. In the last 20 years , the United States has extended the death penalty to more than 60 crimes and speeded up executions by restricting the right of the convicted to appeal . To execute by hanging on a gibbet .

    在过去20年中,美国已将死刑扩展到60多项罪行,并以限制已决犯上诉的权利来加速执行死刑。

  17. During the night which followed the execution of la Esmeralda , the night men had detached her body from the gibbet , and had carried it , according to custom , to the cellar of Montfau ? on .

    把拉·爱斯梅拉达处死的当天晚上,刽子手的助手们就把她的尸体从绞刑架上解下来,按照当时的惯例,送到隼山的墓窖里去了。