guillotine

英 ['gɪlətiːn; ,gɪlə'tiːn] 美 ['ɡɪlətin]

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※ 提供单词"guillotine"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

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.

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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.

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。

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.