pillory
pillory 英 [ˈpɪləri] 美 [ˈpɪləri]
vt. 给…上颈手枷；使…惹人嘲笑 n. 示众；颈手枷；使惹人嘲笑
进行时:pillorying 过去式:pilloried 过去分词:pilloried 第三人称单数:pillories 名词复数:pillories
- A pillory is a wooden frame with cutouts for someone's head and hands. Long ago, people found guilty of a crime could be sentenced to be locked in a pillory for a certain amount of time for punishment but also for public humiliation.
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- vt. 给…上颈手枷；使…惹人嘲笑
- n. 示众；颈手枷；使惹人嘲笑
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1. Will those found guilty be dragged straight from the court to the pillory?
那些看起来有罪的人会从法庭上被直接拉出去示众吗？
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2. Even if all these people gave back double the amount they received and spent the week in the public pillory, it wouldn't fix the problem.
这些人交回两倍于他们收到的薪金 花一周时间示众也解决不了问题。
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3. Be that as it might, the scaffold of the pillory was a point of view that revealed to Hester Prynne the entire track along which she had been treading, since her happy infancy.
无论如何，这座示众刑台成了一个了望点，在海丝特·白兰面前展现山自从她幸福的童年以来的全都轨迹。
- pillory (n.) late 13c. (attested in Anglo-Latin from late 12c.), from Old French pilori "pillory" (mid-12c.), related to Medieval Latin pilloria, of uncertain origin, perhaps a diminutive of Latin pila "pillar, stone barrier" (see pillar), but OED finds this proposed derivation "phonologically unsuitable."
- pillory (v.) c. 1600, from pillory (n.). Figurative sense of "expose publicly to ridicule or abuse" is from 1690s. Related: Pilloried.
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