汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 刽子手
刽子手 (劊子手)
executioner / headsman / slaughterer / fig. indiscriminate murderer
①旧时执行死刑的人。②比喻屠杀人民的人。
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES

他是恶名昭彰的刽子手

He was a notorious mass murderer.

那里刽子手的脸孔完美地伪装。

Where the executioner's face is always well hidden.

刽子手放下了斧子,一言不发地站着。

The executioner put down his axe and stood quietly.

就让刽子手停止行刑,赦免了王延寿。 。

They told the executioner to let him go, and pardoned him.

那么,是什么家庭产生了杀人如麻的刽子手呢?

So what kind of family produces a mass murderer?

以现代观点来看,刽子手不受刑罚甚至比罪行本身更令人震惊。

From a modern perspective, the killers' impunity was even more shocking than the crime.

柏拉图写到,从皮里亚斯,走出北侧墙外,他感受到尸体,躺在刽子手的周围。

"Leontius" Leontius, "he writes," was proceeding from the Piraeus outside the north wall when he perceived corpses lying near the public executioner.

有这么多血鲜血渗到她红色的衬裙上,渗到她黑色的连衣裙和她那白色的纱裙上,鲜血流到了刽子手的鞋上,地板上到处是血。

There was so much blood on her red petticoat, blood on her black dress and her white veil, blood on the executioner's shoes, blood all over the floor.

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。

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.