guillotine

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guillotine 是什么意思

中文释义

n. 断头台, 截断机, 切除器

vt. 用断头台斩首, 用截断机切

英文释义

n. instrument of execution that consists of a weighted blade between two vertical poles; used for beheading people

v. kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine

guillotine 的真实例句

以下例句摘自真实英文文章，看看 guillotine 在自然语境里怎么用：

This Elysian dream ended not even a decade later as the Reign of Terror dropped the blade of the guillotine upon Marie Antoinette, then upon ten thousand other heads and the dreams they carried.

—— Trial, Triumph, and the Art of the Possible: The Remarkable Story Behind Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”

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