electric chair

英 [ɪˌlektrɪk ˈtʃeə(r)]

美 [ɪˌlektrɪk ˈtʃer]

n.  (尤指美国处决犯人的)电椅，电刑

法律

牛津词典

noun

• （尤指美国处决犯人的）电椅，电刑
  (especially in the US) a chair in which criminals are killed by passing a powerful electric current through their bodies; the method of execution which uses this chair
  1. He was sent to the electric chair.
     他被送上电椅处决。
  2. They face death by the electric chair.
     他们面临着被电刑处死。

柯林斯词典

• （尤指美国处决犯人的）电椅，电刑
  The electric chairis a method of killing criminals, used especially in the United States, in which a person is strapped to a special chair and killed by a powerful electric current.

英英释义

noun

• an instrument of execution by electrocution
  1. the murderer was sentenced to die in the chair
  Synonym:chairdeath chairhot seat

双语例句

• Research of Electric Massage Chair based on Series of PIC Singlechip Microcomputer
  基于PIC系列单片机的电动按摩椅的研制
• He was sent to the electric chair.
  他被送上电椅处决。
• My god, they'd put you in the electric chair.
  上帝，他们会把你推上电椅。
• A girl student named Wu Shou-chin became insane after being treated five times in an electric chair.
  有一个名叫吴绶琴的女学生受了五次电刑，以致神经错乱。
• To undergo execution in an electric chair.
  电刑在电椅上受极刑。
• He then put his name behind an effort to use AC to power the first electric chair.
  随后，他又倡导把交流电用在美国第一把执行死刑的电椅上。
• He is not unlike those condemned persons who have to be carried to the guillotine or the electric chair because they drag their feet.
  他和那些拖拖拉拉不得不被架上绞刑架或电椅的死刑犯相比没什么不同。
• Which way to the electric chair?
  这就要被判死刑了吗？
• Improvement design of the backrest movement mechanism of electric dental patient chair the policy should be inclined to CHS;
  电动牙科病人椅背靠前后倾机构的改进设计制定医保倾斜政策，促进病人向社区卫生服务机构合理流动；
• It was like walking to the electric chair. That's the way it felt.
  这就象是走到死刑电椅上一样，这就是当时的感觉。