guillotine
guillotine 英 [ˈgɪləti:n] 美 [ˈɡɪləˌtin, ˈɡiə-]
n. 断头台；切纸机；截止辩论以付表决法 vt. 于断头台斩首；终止辩论将议案付诸表决
进行时:guillotining 过去式:guillotined 过去分词:guillotined 第三人称单数:guillotines 名词复数:guillotines
- The guillotine was a death penalty machine used to behead people convicted of crimes, and it was basically a giant blade that slid down and sliced through a person’s neck, their head falling into a basket below.
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- n. 断头台；切纸机；截止辩论以付表决法
- vt. 于断头台斩首；终止辩论将议案付诸表决
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1. The Republic, a guillotine in the twilight; the Empire, a sword in the night.
共和，只是暮色中的一架断头台，帝国，只是黑夜里的一把大刀。
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2. That particular one thing was invented by a Frenchman and it is called "guillotine.
而这件特别的东西是由一个法国人发明的，名叫“断头台”。
- guillotine (n.) "The name of the machine in which the axe descends in grooves from a considerable height so that the stroke is certain and the head instantly severed from the body." ["Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure," January 1793], 1791, from French guillotine, named in recognition of French physician Joseph Guillotin (1738-1814), who as deputy to the National Assembly (1789) proposed, for humanitarian and efficiency reasons, that capital punishment be carried out by beheading quickly and cleanly on a machine, which was built in 1791 and first used the next year. Similar devices were used in the Middle Ages. The verb is first attested 1794. Related: Guillotined; guillotining.
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