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hang (obj) KILLhANvpast hanged or hung hVNto kill (someone), esp. as punishment for a serious crime, by dropping them with a rope tied around their neck and fixed at the other end绞死，施以绞刑In the morning they hanged the prisoner from a gibbet. [T]早上他们在绞刑架上绞死了那囚犯。The sentence of the court is that you be hanged by the neck until you are dead. [T]法庭判你绞刑直到你死去。With so little evidence to prove her guilt, few people thought she should hang (=be killed in this way). [I]没有确凿的证据证明她有罪，因此人们认为她不太可能被绞死。He hanged himself in his garage. [T]他在自己的车库里上吊自杀。In the past if someone was hanged / hung, drawn and quartered they were hanged and their body was cut into pieces.(一种古代的刑罚)绞刑后取出肠子，然后肢解碎尸(esp. Br and Aus saying) 'You might as well be hanged / hung for a sheep as (for) a lamb'means that because the punishment for a bad action and an even worse one will be the same, you have no reason not to do the worse one.既然对坏事和更坏的事惩罚是一样的，不如做更坏的事The standard past form of the verb is hanged, but hung is quite commonly used too.动词的标准过去式是hanged，但hung也相当普遍地使用 [HANGMAN]
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