guillotine meaning in English
n.
1.断头台。
2.【机械工程】截切机，闸刀。
3.【物理学】截流器。
4.【医学】铡刀，环状刀。 tonsil guillotine 扁桃体铡除刀。
5.(议会)中止辩论〔指在预定时间对议案等进行表决〕。
vt.
1.把…送上断头台，把…处斩刑。
2.【医学】用截切机截断。
3.对(议案)中止辩论而付表决。
Examples
- Within twenty-four hours he died on the guillotine .
不出24小时，他就要死在断头台上。 - "i know," pug said in a dry tone, that guillotined the conversation, and the captain left .
“我知道”，帕格冷漠的口气打断了谈话，于是舰长走了。 - You know it is a capital crime to mourn for, or sympathize with, a victim of the guillotine .
你知道为一个格洛提的牺牲者哭泣或表示同情就是一种大罪。 - Her first husband had been guillotined two years earlier because he opposed robespierre's revolutionary government .
她的第一个丈夫在两年前因反对罗伯斯庇尔的革命政府被处决。 - "i'm afraid, after all, you won't have the pleasure of going gracefully to the guillotine here just now," mr. touchett went on .
“不过说到底，目前你恐怕还没有福气在这儿光荣地走上断头台呢，”杜歇先生说下去。