1Put (a plan, order, or course of action) into effect.

公司完成了一系列的金融交易。

1. 1.1 Produce (a work of art)
   制作（艺术作品）
   not only does she execute embroideries, she designs them too

   她不仅绣花，而且还进行绣花设计。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • This work was executed by painting the canvas the texture of wood, so that the figure seems like a sculpture.
   • His genre paintings were executed at the very outset of his career in the early 1580s.
   • Conceptual innovators, like the cubists, made quick breakthroughs that revolutionized both the way art was executed and the way it was interpreted.
   • His work is generally executed in a graceful and delicate style, with freely flowing forms and considerable sensitivity in the handling of subject matter and material.
   • Citing Bauhaus influence, especially the paintings of Josef Albers, she executed her works by hand with painstaking precision.
   • Although he prepared and executed his works painstakingly like the old masters, he wanted his works of art look like machine made.
   • These works were executed in tiny brushstrokes, reducing the presence of the artist's hand and enhancing the illusion that the viewer was staring at a real scene.
   • The work was executed by the Piccirilli Brothers, the leading firm of carvers in New York City.
   • These works were executed in the later 1660s, in plenty of time for Van der Meulen to put them into his background.
   • Balka's art - introspective and executed with a minimalist austerity - continues to attract viewers.
   • The photographer has executed the work with a detachment that is almost cruel.
   • In rock art, it is characteristic for the artist to chose to execute the work irrespective of the rock curvature or characteristics.
   • His passion is for boats, in particular traditional barges on the Thames, and his works are executed in watercolour and pen and ink.
   • The idea was that craftsmen designed and executed their own work alongside artists such as Ford Maddox-Brown, to produce useful and decorative objects.
   • All paintings are executed using quality handmade oil paints from Germany and Italy on fine Belgian canvas.
   • It seems reasonable to suppose that the work was mostly executed around 1560, but that Titian added the foliage in the upper third immediately prior to its delivery to Philip II in Spain.
   • All the paintings were beautifully executed with great attention to detail.
   • The work is flawlessly executed and represents one of the finest examples of the metalsmith's art.
   • Associations aside, the works are deftly executed, marvelously obsessive gems.
   • The final section of this exhibition is devoted to works executed by artists after they had left Rome and the Villa Medici.

   Synonyms

   paint, draw, depict, portray, represent, reproduce
2. 1.2 Perform (a skilful action or manoeuvre)
   they had to execute their dance steps with the greatest precision

   他们得一丝不苟地去完成他们的舞步。

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   • We turned around and executed an emergency descent to 10,000 feet.
   • While figure skating involves graceful acrobatic manoeuvres with music in the background, the freestyle performer executes a set of movements tracing a figure on the floor.
   • Occasionally, executing a standard manoeuvre such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would need to reinstall the engine.
   • Its virtuosic male performers towered impressively on stilts while executing complex choreography and astonishing feats of acrobatics.
   • When this maneuver is properly executed, you can literally turn within one wingspan.
   • One soldier managed to successfully execute the somersault maneuver that most people are familiar with from the childhoods.
   • Paddy's two goals were executed to perfection - they were quality finishes.
   • The manoeuvre was expertly executed, the finish applied with an aplomb of which Ian would have been proud.
   • After executing the movement, lower the bar back slowly to the original position.
   • This third try was symptomatic of a day of off-load practice for Bradford as they were given maximum time and space to execute their manoeuvres.
   • To make the change, you have to forget about where the ball is going and totally focus on learning how to execute the slide step.
   • He drove a very strong race pushing hard throughout and perfectly executing an overtaking manoeuvre over Michael that turned out to be decisive for us to finish third.
   • Jamie executes a perfect jump turn beside me and asks innocently, ‘Are you all right, Daddy?’
   • I protested that I had to enter the bus lane (which, incidentally, was bus-free at the time) to execute a left turn.
   • Although he had time to shoot under Marshall, Luna swivelled and as the keeper bore down on him executed a dive of glorious artistic merit.
   • York were unprepared for Featherstone's short kick-off which they executed to perfection.
   • This was intense - the dancers working so hard that sweat was flying from them as they executed turns.
   • When airborne and safely isolated from other traffic, he'd let me take the stick and execute cautious dives, climbs, and turns.
   • Wearing a less revealing tank top instead will still allow you to see just enough skin and muscle to properly execute your training movements.
   • Entertaining the masses, though, isn't nearly as exhilarating as executing a perfect dive.
   • Usually performed by small groups of competing dancers, this segment is performed by a large group of dancers executing the steps in perfect syncopation.

   Synonyms

   perform, present, render

   stage, put on
3. 1.3Law Make (a legal instrument) valid by signing or sealing it.
   〔律〕（通过签字或盖章）使（法律文书）生效
   Example sentencesExamples

   • No new beneficial interest is created in favour of the appellant or anybody else, and the property remains subject to the same trusts as it did before the instrument was executed.
   • So the rights, whatever they were, were created, at least according to the language of the documents, a week before the dutiable instrument was executed.
   • If amount is in foreign currency, stamp duty is charged on the Irish equivalent according to the exchange rate prevailing on the day the instrument is executed.
   • Once a security instrument is executed, says GMAC, it attaches immediately to all assets covered by that instrument.
   • If he elects to have another person registered he shall execute an instrument of transfer of the share to that person.
4. 1.4Law Carry out (a judicial sentence, the terms of a will, or other order)
   〔律〕执行（法院判决，遗嘱或其他命令）
   police executed a search warrant

   警察执行了搜查令。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • This can lead to the travellers moving to another car park when the order is executed and the whole process has to be gone through again.
   • The death penalty being spoken of for both is a barbaric obscenity that achieves nothing - except diminish everyone involved in executing the sentence.
   • A dozen men armed with clubs set upon a corporal in the colonial militia when he tried to execute a sentence on a man delinquent in his duty.
   • West Vancouver police executed a search warrant on the residence later that day.
   • On March 23 the police executed a search warrant at a warehouse and made further seizures.
5. 1.5Computing Carry out an instruction or program.
   〔计算机〕执行指令（或程序）
   Example sentencesExamples

   • Once you click OK, all of these commands are executed in order in the window shown in Figure 14.
   • Privilege Level means that the program can execute all CPU instructions.
   • Modern microprocessors can execute three or more instructions per clock cycle.
   • It executes program instructions, writes and reads information to or from memory, and accesses peripheral devices such as serial ports and disk controllers.
   • With Code Morphing, the translation process can be optimized by looking at the generated code and minimizing the number of instructions executed.

2Carry out a sentence of death on (a legally condemned person)

他因被判叛国罪而被处死。

1. 2.1 Kill (someone) as a political act.
   政治谋杀
   he would be executed if he fell into rebel hands

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   • A marine has admitted to executing an enemy soldier by shooting him in the back of the head, and killing another who was trying to run away.
   • Bert quickly learned that the soldiers summarily executed anyone who strayed from the march.
   • The police summarily execute anyone who resists with anything considered weaponry - shields, sticks, rocks.
   • The prison was where the president's henchmen tortured and executed many political prisoners.
   • All of these members were pulled out of a public meeting and summarily executed.
   • They systematically sought out political opponents and executed some on sight.
   • The fates of her other sons are unknown: it is likely they were executed by the militants as informers.
   • They have been bullying the mainland into continuing retreat and concessions whilst they continue to maim kill and execute people in the province.
   • It is unclear how many of the seven soldiers were executed, rather than killed in fighting, as the authorities contend.
   • Officials said troops, with no alternative but to fight to the death, were executing comrades who wanted to surrender.
   • Over 2000 political prisoners were executed that night!
   • During this time the government ran its own reign of terror - tens of thousands of people were made political prisoners, were executed on the streets, or simply disappeared.
   • A further 23 political prisoners were executed there in October 2001.
   • The administration is trying to frame a guilty man and lead a lynch mob to execute him.
   • And eventually, that individual was killed, summarily executed by the IRA.
   • Torture is one thing, but I don't see how executing prisoners is any different to killing them in battle.
   • Party members routinely lynch and execute their opponents without trial.
   • A Nazi officer tells the mayor of a Greek village that unless he kills three suspected partisans, his soldiers will execute fifty children.