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gallows

美音:[´gæləuz ]点这儿播放单词美音发声
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n.绞架,绞刑

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gallows


/'gæləʊz; `ˇæloz/
(also the gallows) n (pl unchanged; usu sing with sing v 复数不变, 通常作单数,与单数动词连用) wooden framework on which criminals are put to death by hanging 绞架
*to send a man to the gallows, ie condemn him to death 把一男子送上绞架(处死).

gallows


npluralgallows[C]
[Language: Old English;Origin: gealga]
a structure used for killing criminals by hanging them from a rope
1. He´ll end up on the gallows.
    他总有一天要受绞刑的。

2. A surgeon in Brussels called Andreas Vesalius and a French surgeon called Ambroise Pare both studied anatomy in the 16th century; but in order to get bodies to dissect they had to steal them by night from gallows or graves.
    布鲁塞尔的一位叫韦萨里斯的外科医生和法国的一位外科医生帕雷都于16世纪研究了解剖学;但为了得到解剖用的尸体,他们不得不深更半夜到绞架台或墓地偷尸。

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