electrocute

柯林斯詞典

1. V-T If someone is electrocuted, they are accidentally killed or badly injured when they touch something connected to a source of electricity. 使…觸電 (死亡或受傷)
Three people were electrocuted by falling power lines. 三人被落下來(lái)的電線電死了。
2. V-T If a criminal is electrocuted, he or she is executed using electricity. 電刑處死[usu passive]
He was electrocuted for a murder committed when he was 17. 他因?yàn)?7歲時(shí)犯下的謀殺罪而被電刑處死。
3. electrocutionN-VAR 電刑處死
The court pronounced him guilty and sentenced him to death by electrocution. 法庭宣判他有罪，并判他電刑處死。