lynching

1. VERB 以私刑绞死（某人）
   If an angry crowd of people lynch someone, they kill that person by hanging them, without letting them have a trial, because they believe that that person has committed a crime.
   1. They were about to lynch him when reinforcements from the army burst into the room and rescued him.
      他们正准备动私刑绞死他时，援军闯入房间把他救下了。

1. Granting a password-less SSH mechanism for remote host access to typical users is justification enough for a lynching in the eyes of some systems administrators.
   向一般用户授予一个无密码的SSH机制来访问远程主机在一些系统管理员的眼里已相当不可想象。
2. Even Wyoming failed to pass hate-crime legislation in the wake of the Shepard lynching.
   甚至在谢巴德被人用私刑处死之后，怀俄明州也没能通过反仇视罪法。
3. This, of course, is an invitation to a lynching.
   这当然会招致毁谤。
4. Frank was abducted from his jail cell and taken to one of the South's innumerable lynching trees.
   弗兰克被绑架，从他的牢房，并被带到一个南方的无数私刑树木。
5. Lynching was not always just random violence.
   私刑，不是总是偶发的暴力。
6. There is some evidence, for instance, that lynching was more common in the American south when land prices and cotton prices were depressed.
   例如，一些证据表明，当土地和棉花价格下跌时，美国南部的私刑更为普遍。
7. If a restaurant knows I'm coming, they will either be falling over themselves to pander to my every whim in the most annoying way, or they will organise a lynching party, he says.
   他表示：如果一家餐厅知道我要来，他们要么会忙不迭地以最烦人的方式对我有求必应，要么就会对我百般指责。
8. LYNCHING took place recently outside an ironmonger's shop in Nairobi, Kenya's capital.
   近日，在肯尼亚首都内罗毕一家五金商店外，发生了一场私刑。
9. They stop first at a local bar to drink some whisky in order to be prepared for the lynching.
   他们第一次停止在当地酒吧喝威士忌，以便准备私刑。
10. It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
    法律无法让一个人爱我，这也许是真的，但法律却能阻止他对我用私刑，而我认为那是相当重要的。
11. If she invited you to a ceremonial lynching, would you go?
    如果她邀请你参加宗教私刑礼你也会去吗？
12. Although lynch law and lynching are mainly associated with hanging, other, less severe punishments were used.
    林奇法和其它私刑主要是绞刑，但也有较轻的处罚。
13. He was a victim of lynching.
    他是私刑的受害者。
14. I don't take much stock in this lynching idea.
    我不大重视这种非法折磨人的办法。

noun

1. putting a person to death by mob action without due process of law