pillory
vt. 给…上颈手枷；使…惹人嘲笑
n. 示众；颈手枷；使惹人嘲笑
n.
颈手枷；
vt.
使受公众嘲笑；将…示众；给…上颈手枷；处…以枷刑
变形
复数：pillories过去式：pilloried过去分词：pilloried现在分词：pillorying第三人称单数：pillories
英英释义
pillory[ 'piləri ]
n.a wooden instrument of punishment on a post with holes for the wrists and neck; offenders were locked in and so exposed to public scorn
v.
expose to ridicule or public scorn
同义词：gibbet
punish by putting in a pillory
criticize harshly or violently
同义词：savagecrucify
双语例句
用作名词(n.)
The world mocks at it and sometimes puts one in the pillory for it.
世人对它大加嘲笑,有时甚至还给它带上颈手枷。
用作动词(v.)
She was pilloried in the press for her extravagant parties.
她的聚会十分铺张，新闻界对她大加嘲弄。
权威例句
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Lectures at the Pillory: The Early American Execution Sermon
The digital pillory: media shaming of ‘ordinary' people for minor crimes
From Pillory to Penitentiary: The Rise of Criminal Incarceration in Early Massachusetts
FROM PILLORY TO GALLOWS: THE PUNISHMENT OF FORGERY IN THE AGE OF THE FINANCIAL REVOLUTION
Public Secrets: Sodomy and the Pillory in the Eighteenth Century and Beyond
Disclosure and compliance: The 'pillory' as an innovative regulatory instrument
The pillory, the precipice and the slippery slope: the profound effects of the UK's legal reform programme targeting EU migrants
pillory (n.)
late 13c. (attested in Anglo-Latin from late 12c.), from Old French pilori "pillory" (mid-12c.), related to Medieval Latin pilloria, of uncertain origin, perhaps a diminutive of Latin pila "pillar, stone barrier" (see pillar), but OED finds this proposed derivation "phonologically unsuitable."
pillory (v.)
c. 1600, from pillory (n.). Figurative sense of "expose publicly to ridicule or abuse" is from 1690s. Related: Pilloried.
1. Will those found guilty be dragged straight from the court to the pillory?
那些看起来有罪的人会从法庭上被直接拉出去示众吗？
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2. This is a story for your pleasure and not a candidate for Mr. Graves' literary pillory !
这是供你消遣的小说，而非格雷夫斯先生文学批判的对象！
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3. For serious offences, use is made of the pillory as well as of the cangue, which latter is a heavy square wooden board round the neck.
对严重违法者，既使用颈枷也使用手铐。 颈枷是戴在脖子上的一块沉重的方木块。
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4. The shoes were often used in conjunction with the standing pillory (a device that holds your head and wrists in place while you stand).
这种鞋子常常是联合直立用颈手枷(站立时枷住头部和手腕的一种装置)使用的。
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5. As the sacred edifice was too much thronged to admit another auditor, she took up her position close beside the scaffold of the pillory.
由于神圣的大厦中挤得人山人海，再也无法容纳新的听讲人，她只好在紧靠刑台的地方占了个位置。
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6. Criticising all with hardly more reverence than the Indian would feel for the clerical band the judicial robe the pillory the gallows the fireside or the church.
她几乎和印第安人一样，以不屑的态度批评牧师的丝带、法官的黑袍、颈手枷、绞刑架、家庭或教会。
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7. Criticising all with hardly more reverence than the Indian would feel for the clerical band the judicial robe the pillory the gallows the fireside or the church.
她几乎和印第安人一样，以不屑的态度批评牧师的丝带、法官的黑袍、颈手枷、绞刑架、家庭或教会。
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