Lizzy Borden
/ˌlɪzi ˈbɔːdn/
/ˌlɪzi ˈbɔːrdn/
- (1860-1927) an American woman who was accused of murdering her rich father and stepmother with an axe (= a tool with a heavy metal edge for cutting wood) on 4 August 1892. Her trial was a famous event. She was judged to be innocent, but many people still believed her guilty. Her name is remembered in a popular children's rhyme that begins: “Lizzy Borden took an axeAnd gave her mother forty whacks.And when she saw what she had done,She gave her father forty-one.”
（1860-1927）一名美国妇女，被指控于 1892 年 8 月 4 日用斧头（一种带有重型金属边缘的砍柴工具）谋杀了她富有的父亲和继母。她的审判是一个著名的事件。她被判定无罪，但许多人仍然相信她有罪。她的名字被一首流行的童谣所铭记，开头是：“丽兹·博登拿着一把斧头，给了她母亲四十下。当她看到自己所做的事情时，她给了她父亲四十一下。”