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望着这个绞刑架总是有益的。 That gibbet is always good to look at. | ||
一条死胡同的末尾有一座绞刑架。 A blind alley at the end of which is a scaffold. | ||
根据流行的传说,上绞刑架要走13步。实际上,绞刑架形式各异,但即便如此,也往往要凑出13这个数字。 According to popular lore, there are 13 steps leading up to the gallows. Gallows actually varied wildly, but even then, the number was often brought up to 13. | ||
“都办好了,”他说,“女巫已经被挂在绞刑架上了。” "It is all done," said he, "and the witch is already hanging on the gallows." | ||
与一桩谋杀案的牵连最终把他送上了绞刑架。 Implication in a murder finally brought him to the gallows. | ||
于是年轻人走到绞刑架前,在下面坐了下来,一直等到天黑。 Then the youth went to the gallows, sat down beneath it, and waited till evening came. | ||
实际上,绞刑架形式各异,但即便如此,也往往要凑出13这个数字。 Gallows actually varied wildly, but even then, the number was often brought up to 13. | ||
他和那些拖拖拉拉不得不被架上绞刑架或电椅的死刑犯相比没什么不同。 He is not unlike those condemned persons who have to be carried to the guillotine or the electric chair because they drag their feet. | ||
私盐商贩们逃脱了王室的绞刑架,颈子上的绞索还没有解下来,便又戴上白帽微。 The contraband salt dealer escapes the royal gibbets, and with a rope's end round his neck, mounts the white cockade. | ||
几个从门外路过的人放慢脚步,很想知道明天就要上绞刑架的那个人在干什么,人们要是看得见他,那天夜里可就别想安然入睡了。 The few who lingered as they passed, and wondered what the man was doing who was to be hanged to-morrow, would have slept but ill that night, if they could have seen him. | ||