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

However, his dream is not long, and when he took the electric chair just escaped to the prison due to act too obvious, immediately caught back execution.
可是，他好梦不长，当他带着电椅刚逃到监狱门口时，由于行动太明显，随即被捉回来执行死刑。
He recorded mutilated bodies pinioned under car wrecks, a suicide splattered on a New York street and the electric chair, in paintings saturated in ethereal colours-silver, blue, green.
沃霍尔的绘画以银、蓝、绿为主，在车轮底下被支离破碎的尸体、血溅纽约大街的自杀者、以及死于电椅的酷刑等充斥着他的作品。
With strong evidence against him, Lincoln is sentenced to death by electric chair.
由于有确凿证据对其不利，林肯被处以电椅极刑。
When I get through with you, you'll be begging for the electric chair!
我抓到你，你就会求我让你上电椅。
Lethal injection's three-drug cocktail was proposed in1977 by an Oklahoma medical examiner and anesthesiologist as a cheaper and more humane alternative to the electric chair.
致命注射的三种药物是由俄克拉何马州医学审查员，麻醉学者在1977年提出。
On death row, General Krantz is led to the electric chair.
在死刑房，“将军”被准备执行电刑。
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。
A dentist invented the electric chair.
电椅是一个牙医发明的。
He was sent to the electric chair.
他被送上电椅处决。
Niggers ought to have their own electric chair.
黑鬼应该有黑人专用的电椅。