guillotine

noun

1. 断头台（源于法国）
   a machine, originally from France, for cutting people's heads off. It has a heavy blade that slides down a wooden frame.
2. 裁切机；切纸机
   a device with a long blade for cutting paper
3. （议会中）规定截止辩论的时限
   the setting of a time limit on a debate in Parliament

verb

1. 把（某人）送上断头台
   to kill sb by cutting off their head with a guillotine
2. （用切纸机）切，切断
   to cut paper using a guillotine
3. （议会中）限制辩论时间
   to limit the amount of time spent discussing a new law in Parliament
   1. to guillotine a bill
      限制议案的辩论时间

1. N-COUNT 断头台（尤见于旧时法国）
   A guillotine is a device used to execute people, especially in France in the past. A sharp blade was raised up on a frame and dropped onto the person's neck.
   1. One after the other Danton, Robespierre and the rest went to the guillotine.
      丹东、罗伯斯比尔以及其他人被逐一送上了断头台。
2. VERB 把…送上断头台
   If someone is guillotined, they are killed with a guillotine.
   1. After Marie Antoinette was guillotined, her lips moved in an attempt to speak.
      玛丽·安托瓦内特被送上断头台处决后，她的嘴唇动了动，想开口说话。
3. 切纸机
   A guillotine is a device used for cutting paper.

1. One after the other Danton, Robespierre and the rest went to the guillotine.
   丹东、罗伯斯比尔以及其他人被逐一送上了断头台。
2. After Marie Antoinette was guillotined, her lips moved in an attempt to speak.
   玛丽·安托瓦内特被送上断头台处决后，她的嘴唇动了动，想开口说话。
3. And I shall certainly go to see him beheaded on the guillotine, the wretch!
   总有一天，我会看见你上断头台的，坏蛋！
4. The Guillotine, that new machine of death, cut off the heads of many, many people& the powerful and the cruel, but also the beautiful, the innocent, and the good.
   那座断头台&那新的死亡机器，砍掉了许许多多权贵和暴虐者的人头。但也有美丽、无辜且善良的人被斩首。
5. But the death-carts have arrived, and the Guillotine has already begun its work.
   可是死囚车已经到了，断头台已开始工作了。
6. Castles were burned, laws were changed, and the rich and powerful nobles died& their heads cut off by that terrible new machine of death, the Guillotine.
   城堡被烧掉，法律被改换，那些有钱有势的贵族死了：他们的脑袋被那可怕的新死亡机器&断头台给砍掉了。
7. He became more and more loved by the rough people of the Revolution. But the Guillotine continued to kill.
   他越来越被那些粗鲁的革命者所喜爱了，但是断头台仍旧在杀人。
8. He carefully places her with her back to the Guillotine, and she looks up gratefully into his face.
   他小心地让她背对着断头台，她感激地抬头望着他的脸。
9. In Paris the King was put in prison, and in 1792 the people of France sent him to the Guillotine as well.
   在巴黎，国王被投进了监狱。1792年，法国人民把他也送上了断头台。
10. Now the Guillotine is waiting. The young girl goes next, before him.
    断头台现在正在等着，下一个就是年轻的女孩子，在他之前。
11. But I wouldn't want to go to the guillotine.
    但我不想去断头台。
12. 'You mean the Guillotine'.
    你是说断头台吧。
13. To the Guillotine all aristocrats!
    把全部贵族都送上断头台！
14. Although guillotine is mostly associated with the french.
    尽管绞刑架大多和法国联系在一起。
15. The guillotine will soon strike off his dead.
    他就要上断头台了。
16. During the Reign of Terror hundreds were daily dispatched by the guillotine.
    在大恐怖时期，每天有几百人被送上断头台。
17. Within twenty-four hours he died on the guillotine.
    不出24小时，他就要死在断头台上。
18. It was decapitated in an18th century French guillotine.
    它被一台18世纪的法国闸刀斩首了。
19. Flush from their mid-term victory, they have flung themselves headlong into the guillotine of fiscal austerity.
    他们对自己的中期胜利兴奋不已，轻率地就把自己送上了财政紧缩政策的断头台。
20. A guillotine was erected in the town square and a crowd began to gather around it.
    一个断头台在市镇广场建立起来，人群开始聚集在它周围。
21. How did the baby get in the guillotine?
    宝宝怎么会跑到闸刀下面？
22. As for the Bishop, it was a shock to him to have beheld the guillotine, and it was a long time before he recovered from it.
    至于主教，对他来说，看断头台行刑确是一种震动；过了许久，他才镇定下来。
23. 1792-Highwayman Nicolas J.Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
    1792年的今天，拦路抢匪尼古拉斯·J·帕利特尔成为首位被送上断头台的人。
24. As for the bishop, it was a shock to him to have beheld the guillotine.
    至于主教，对他来说，看断头台行刑确是一种震动。
25. He ends it by pretending to end his life – with a guillotine.
    他表演的最后一幕是假装在断头台上结束自己的生命。
26. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.
    六辆死囚车给断头台小姐送去了那天的美酒。
27. Said by: queen Marie Antoinette after she accidentally stepped on the foot of her executioner as she went to the guillotine.
    出自：玛丽安托瓦内特王后，她上断头台的时候，不小心踩了刽子手一脚。
28. Back gauge: That part of a guillotine controlling the position and dimension of paper cutting.
    后挡规：切纸机上控制切幅面大小和定位的部件。
29. The Guillotine goes handsomely. I love it.
    断头台干得真漂亮，我真喜欢它。
30. The invention of the guillotine was opportune to this mood.
    断头台的发明恰好适合这种气氛。

noun

1. instrument of execution that consists of a weighted blade between two vertical poles

2. closure imposed on the debate of specific sections of a bill

   Synonym:    closure by compartment

verb

1. kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine
   1. The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country