gallows
US
UK gallows npl: (execution apparatus)
SC 绞刑架 jiǎo xíng jià
TC 絞刑架
TC 絞刑架
The gallows was erected just outside the courthouse.
绞刑架就建在法院外面。
the gallows n: (execution by hanging)
SC 绞刑 jiǎo xíng
She deserves the gallows for what she did to him.
她对他做了那样的事，应处以绞刑。
gallows humor (US), gallows humour (UK) n: (macabre jokes)
SC 化解危机或打破僵局的幽默 huà jiě wēi jī huò dǎ pò jiāng jú de yōu mò
SC 黑色幽默 huà jiě wēi jī huò dǎ pò jiāng jú de yōu mò，hēi sè yōu mò
SC 黑色幽默 huà jiě wēi jī huò dǎ pò jiāng jú de yōu mò，hēi sè yōu mò
The medical examiner relies on gallows humor to deal with the nature of her work.
- worldly
- worldly goods
- world record
- worlds apart
- world-shaking
- world trade center
- world trade organization
- world view
- worldview
- world war
- world war i
- world war ii
- world war one
- world-weariness
- world-weary
- worldwide
- world wide fund for nature
- worm
- worm-eaten
- wormed
- wormer
- wormhole
- worm out of
- worms
- sphincter