gallows

🇺🇸 /ˈɡæləʊz/ 🇬🇧 /ˈɡæləʊz/
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難度
標籤 TOP20000
noun
R

A platform with a post and beam from which people were hanged, especially as a form of capital punishment.

The criminal was sentenced to death by hanging on the gallows.

罪犯被判處在絞刑架上吊死的死刑。

translation

n. 絞刑架

詞形變化

Plural gallowses