gallows

• n. 绞刑；绞刑架；承梁

来自PIE*ghalgh, 杆，棍。用来指绞刑架。

1. instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which condemned persons are executed by hanging

gallows

gallows: [13] Gallows was probably borrowed from Old Norse gálgi (the related Old English galga does not seem to have survived into the Middle English period). Both go back to a prehistoric Germanic *galgon ‘pole’, whose descendants, which also include Old High German galgo and Gothic galga, were often used for the ‘cross on which Christ was crucified’. The plurality of modern English gallows presumably comes from the fact that technically a gallows consists of two upright poles with a cross-piece in between (as opposed to a gibbet, which has a single upright).

gallows (n.)

c. 1300, plural of Middle English galwe "gallows" (mid-13c.), from Old Norse galgi "gallows," or from Old English galga (Mercian), gealga (West Saxon) "gallows;" all from Proto-Germanic *galgon "pole" (cognates: Old Frisian galga, Old Saxon galgo, Middle High German galge "gallows, cross," German Galgen "gallows," Gothic galga "cross"), from PIE *ghalgh- "branch, rod" (cognates: Lithuanian zalga "pole, perch," Armenian dzalk "pole"). In Old English, also used of the cross of the crucifixion. Plural because made of two poles. Gallows-tree is Old English galg-treow. Gallows humor (1881) translates German Galgenhumor.

to send a man to the gallows (= to send him to his death by hanging)

把一名男子送上绞刑架

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Two trees grow where the gallows stood, one a palm as tall ship's mast.

有两棵树,就长在当年绞架竖立的地方, 其中一棵棕榈树长得跟旗杆差不多高.

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So they Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king's fury subsided.

于是人将哈曼挂在他为末底改所豫备的木架上. 王的忿怒这才止息.

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Lying is the first step to gallows.

说谎是迈向断头台的第一步.

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But somehow it worked. Gallows humour becomes Mr Brown.

看来“大难当头的幽默”适合布朗.

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Like the thief on the gallows.

彼得说,[就像绞架上的小偷那样!

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You'd better watch your step, young man, or you'll end up on the gallows.

你最好小心点儿, 小伙子, 要不然你会死在绞刑架上的.

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The gallows groans for you.

绞架在等着你呢.

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Only our brand of gallows humor saves us from utter despair.

只有我们招牌式的黑色幽默把我们从完全的绝望中拯救出来.

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He was saved from the gallows by a lastminute reprieve.

最后一刻的缓刑令把他从绞架上解救了下来.

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He is one of the greatest ruffians who ever cheated the gallows.

他是一个曾经逃过绞刑的最坏的恶棍.

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And the thing pleased Haman ; and he caused the gallows to be made.

哈曼以这话为美, 就叫人做了木架.

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But psychologists say that gallows humor can be an important way to relieve stress.

但心理学家们认为,黑色幽默可能成为一种重要的解压方式.

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But I'll own up fairly , I've the shakes upon me for the gallows.

不过我对你说实话, 我一想起绞架就忍不住要发抖.

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Gallows : This impressive structure causes a lot of fear among your captives.

绞刑架: 这个令人印象深刻的设施可以让你的俘虏们感到害怕.

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He gallows groans for him.

绞架在等着他呢.

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War make the thief, and peace bring him to the gallows.

战乱出盗贼, 治世上绞索.

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If that ruffian does not mend his ways, he will come to the gallows some day.

如果那个恶棍不改邪归正的话, 他总有一天会上绞刑架的.

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They did not send an innocent man to the gallows.

被他们送上绞架的并不是一个无辜的人.

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He that fears the gallows shall never be a good thief.

惯盗不怕绞刑架.

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The criminal ended up in the gallows.

那个罪犯最后被绞死了.

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Here's Johnny Gloke, the great gaintkiller, come with a gallows to hang us all!

降妖伏魔的那个约翰尼·格洛克来啦, 他带着绞架来要把我们通通绞死.

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On the top of the gallows is fixed the knife.

绞架顶上装着一把刀.

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He'll come to the gallows.

他将来要受绞刑.

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That very day a gallows was built outside the town.

就在那天,城外竖起了一个绞刑台.

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The judge condemned the criminal to the gallows.

法官判了这名罪犯绞刑.

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This time the gallows claimed him.

这次,他被送上了绞刑台.

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The murderer was sent to the gallows for his crimes.

谋杀犯由于罪大恶极被处以绞刑.

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Save a thief from the gallows and he will help hang you.

救贼脱险,反受其累.

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