guillotine
英 ['gɪlətiːn; ,gɪlə'tiːn]
美 ['ɡɪlətin]
- 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. 世界最高效死刑机器的发明人碰巧是反对死刑制度的积极分子，这恐怕是历史最大讽刺之一。眼看废除死刑任重道远，法国物理学家兼刑事改革家盖勒廷提议建造这种瞬间砍头的机器，总比用钝斧头砍脖子或分尸的老方法要“人道”一些。岂知，断头台一用就是200年，法语、英语里干脆就叫“盖勒廷台”，随了发明者的姓。
2. 谐音“极乐亭”。
guillotine 断头台，切纸机来自法国医生Joseph Guillotin，他出于人道主义考虑，在1791年设计了一款高效的断头设备。不幸的是，他的名字被用于这种新型设备的名称，为此，他无数次抗议，但已挡不住这个新名词的流传。
- guillotine
- guillotine: [18] Joseph Ignace Guillotin (1738– 1814), a French doctor, did not invent the device named after him – such contraptions had been around for some time – but it was he who saw the advantages, in terms of speed and efficiency, of an easily resettable blade for beheading in a time of peak demand, and he recommended it to the Revolutionary authorities. The term used for it, first recorded in English in 1793, is a fitting memorial to him. Its application to the limitation of discussion in a legislature dates from the 1890s.
- 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.
- 1. to guillotine a bill
- 限制议案的辩论时间
来自《权威词典》
- 2. Not many French people are in favour of using the guillotine.
- 没有多少法国人赞成使用断头台.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 3. One after the other Danton, Robespierre and the rest went to the guillotine.
- 丹东、罗伯斯比尔以及其他人被逐一送上了断头台。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. But I wouldn't want to go to the guillotine.
- 但我不想去断头台.
来自超越目标英语 第4册
- 5. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.
- 六辆死囚车给断头台小姐送去了那天的美酒.
来自英汉文学 - 双城记
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