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appoint someone executioner
任命类动词后的职位名词通常不带冠词。
The king appointed him executioner.
国王任命他为刽子手。
刽子手；行刑者；死刑执行人
executioners — plural of executioner
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刽子手；行刑者；死刑执行人
executioner
The king appointed him executioner.
国王任命他为刽子手。
刽子手；执行死刑的官方人员。
An official person who carries out the capital punishment of a criminal.
执行死刑的官员
an official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant
职业杀手,尤指属于某组织的杀手。
A hit man, especially being in some organization.
The executioner carried out the court's sentence at dawn.
刽子手在黎明时执行了法庭的判决。
In the old story, the executioner wore a black hood to hide his face.
在那个古老的故事里，刽子手戴黑色头罩遮住脸。
People whispered that the executioner never showed mercy.
人们私下说那个刽子手从不手下留情。
任命类动词后的职位名词通常不带冠词。
The king appointed him executioner.
国王任命他为刽子手。
介词 as 后表示职位时常省略冠词。
He served as executioner for the county.
他在该县担任行刑者。
of 后接地点或机构，表示某处的行刑者。
The executioner of the city was a ruthless man.
这座城市的行刑者是个残忍的人。
Not this
The executioner of her estate is her eldest son.
Use this
The executor of her estate is her eldest son.
executioner（刽子手）与 executor（执行者/遗嘱执行人）拼写相近但意义不同，汉语的“执行者”容易导致误用。
Not this
The executioner of the prisoner was scheduled for nine in the morning.
Use this
The execution of the prisoner was scheduled for nine in the morning.
表示“执行死刑”这一行为时应用动作名词 execution，executioner 指行刑者（人），不能用作事件名称。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
公职刽子手；官方行刑者
The public executioner carried out the sentence at dawn.
公职刽子手在黎明时执行了判决。
刽子手的斧头
The executioner's axe was sharpened before the beheading.
刽子手的斧头在斩首前磨好了。
刽子手的行刑木墩
The prisoner knelt before the executioner's block.
囚犯跪在刽子手的行刑木墩前。
刽子手的头套
The executioner wore a black hood to hide his identity.
刽子手戴上黑色头套以隐藏身份。
任命刽子手
The court appointed a new executioner for the region.
法庭为该地区任命了一名新的刽子手。
刽子手的论点是，除非有身体连着，否则你没法砍下一个人的头。
This line from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland satirizes the legalistic logic of the executioner, who refuses to carry out a sentence without a body attached to the head.
这句话出自《爱丽丝梦游仙境》，讽刺了刽子手那种形式化的逻辑：没有连着头颅的身体，他就拒绝执行死刑。
Use executioners naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
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执行(execute)处决的人加-er，就是刽子手：记住“execution”是处决，执行它的人即行刑者。
语域：neutral 常见场景：historical texts、legal contexts、news reports、fiction 该词通常属于中性语域，不带明显正式或非正式色彩；多用于历史、法律、新闻等书面或正式场景，也可出现在虚构作品中。
真正同韵的词很少；execution 和 prosecution 都含有重读的 /kjuʃən/，但 execution 少了词尾 /ər/，prosecution 也不是完整韵脚。practitioner、petitioner、commissioner 词尾都读 /ʃənər/，但重音元音不同，不押韵。executor 拼写上很像（execut-），但读音是 /ɪɡˈzɛkjətər/，与 executioner /ˌɛksəˈkjuʃənər/ 不同。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.