gibbet

noun

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

1. 同gallow
   A gibbet is a gallows .

1. 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。
2. 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。
3. The criminals were hanged on the gibbet.
   罪犯被推上绞架吊死。
4. 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。
5. 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。
6. In the last 20 years, the United States has extended the death penalty to more than 60 crimes and speeded up executions by restricting the right of the convicted to appeal. To execute by hanging on a gibbet.
   在过去20年中，美国已将死刑扩展到60多项罪行，并以限制已决犯上诉的权利来加速执行死刑。
7. 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。
8. 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。
9. 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。
10. 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。
11. During the night which followed the execution of la Esmeralda, the night men had detached her body from the gibbet, and had carried it, according to custom, to the cellar of Montfau? on.
    把拉·爱斯梅拉达处死的当天晚上，刽子手的助手们就把她的尸体从绞刑架上解下来，按照当时的惯例，送到隼山的墓窖里去了。
12. 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。

noun

1. alternative terms for gallows

   Synonym:    gallows treegallows-treegallous

verb

1. expose to ridicule or public scorn

   Synonym:    pillory

2. hang on an execution instrument