gallows
gallows 英 [ˈgæləʊz] 美 [ˈgæloʊz]
n. 绞刑；绞刑架；承梁
名词复数:gallows
- During the Salem witch trials in the late 1600s, women accused of witchcraft were executed by hanging, a gruesome process that involves a gallows, or wooden frame from which a person is hung by a rope.
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- n. 绞刑；绞刑架；承梁
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1. There's a thief hanging on the gallows out there, and I'll cut his hand off; which hand was it?
我想办法帮你渡过难关.外面绞刑架上吊着一个小偷.我去把他的手切下来.哪只手呢?""
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2. Asfor Saddam himself, he went to the gallows in 2006 not with his signaturejet-black mustache, but with a salt-and-pepper beard.
对于萨达姆，2006年同他一起走上绞刑架的不再是他那乌黑的胡子，而是黑白相间的山羊胡。
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3. Richard Crowninshield thought he would avoid the gallows—and might well have—had Joe Knapp not confessed his role in the plot to the Rev. Colman.
理查德·克劳宁希尔德以为自己能逃脱绞刑——事实也的确如此，因为乔·克纳普不承认他先前对科尔曼神父的供词。
- gallows (n.) c. 1300, plural of Middle English galwe "gallows" (mid-13c.), from Old Norse galgi "gallows," or from Old English galga (Mercian), gealga (West Saxon) "gallows;" all from Proto-Germanic *galgon "pole" (source also of Old Frisian galga, Old Saxon galgo, Middle High German galge "gallows, cross," German Galgen "gallows," Gothic galga "cross"), from PIE *ghalgh- "branch, rod" (source also of Lithuanian žalga "pole, perch," Armenian dzalk "pole").
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