gibbet

英 [ˈdʒɪbɪt]

美 [ˈdʒɪbɪt]

n.  绞刑架; 绞台

复数：gibbets　现在分词：gibbeting　过去式：gibbeted　第三人称单数：gibbets　过去分词：gibbeted　

BNC.26338 / COCA.42072

牛津词典

noun

• 绞刑架；绞台
  a vertical wooden structure on which criminals used to be hanged

柯林斯词典

• 同gallow
  Agibbetis agallows.

英英释义

noun

• alternative terms for gallows
  Synonym:gallows treegallows-treegallous

verb

• expose to ridicule or public scorn
  Synonym:pillory
• hang on an execution instrument

双语例句

• The criminals were hanged on the gibbet.
  罪犯被推上绞架吊死。
• When you hang from a gibbet for the sport of your own crows, we shall have peace.
  当你挂在一个拉倒对这项运动的你自己的乌鸦，我们就有平安。
• I warn you that you will be quiet& When the curfew of fear and the gibbet of unemployment make you obedient.
  如果恐惧的宵禁和失业的绞架使你们俯首帖耳，我警告你们：你们将噤若寒蝉。
• The presence of this gibbet sufficed to render gloomy all the surrounding places.
  那刑台的存在足以使那一带显得阴森恐怖。
• I see a world at peace, a world on which the gibbet's shadow does not fall.
  我看见的是一个太平的世界，没有任何绞刑架投下可怕的阴影。
• Another example comes complete with a picture of a gibbet and dangling corpse.
  另一个例子则完全是一副绞刑架和一具摇晃的尸体。
• On the other side stood a gibbet, a decaying corpse dangling from it by a worn hemp rope.
  路的另一边立着一个绞刑架，用麻绳挂在架子上的腐尸正微微的摆动着。
• The murderer who is dragged to the gibbet and the polished sabbath-breaker are one in the sight of God.
  在上帝眼中，被拖上绞刑台的凶手与优雅破坏安息日的人无分轩轾。
• We passed the desiccated corpse of a brigand hanging on a gibbet.
  我们路过一具悬在绞刑架上的土匪干尸。
• But we could not risk another mutiny; and to take them home for the gibbet would have been a cruel sort of kindness.
  但我们不能冒险让船上再发生一次叛乱，而且将他们带回去送上绞架似乎也不是什么仁慈之举。