| 释义 |
electrocute, v.|ɪˈlɛktrəkjuːt|
[f. electro-, after execute v.]
trans. To put to death by means of a powerful electric current.
1889Voice (N.Y.) 1 Aug., Kemmler, the murderer sentenced to be ‘electrocuted’. 1890Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 3 May 5/6 The important thing to consider is that the State has a large number of murderers which it can neither hang nor ‘electrocute’—as the new phrase hath it. 1890Congress. Rec. 8375/1 That the gentleman..should be ‘electrocuted’ by the Kemmler process recently adopted in the state of New York. 1920A. Huxley Limbo x. 84 It was as though he were about to be electrocuted. 1970Capital Times (Madison, Wis.) 16 Sept. 27/4 In 1890 the court cleared the way for William Kemmler of Buffalo, N.Y. to be the first person to be electrocuted in the United States.
b. transf. To kill in any way by electricity.
1909Yorkshire Post 4 Aug. 4/5 [A boy] who was electrocuted on the Mersey Railway last Saturday. 1913Daily Mail 13 Jan. 3/2 The horse..was struck by the wire and instantly electrocuted. 1970N.Y. Times 18 Sept. 24/4 A girl electrocuted herself..when she got into a bath wearing electric hair curlers. |