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on the gibbet
名词用法，gibbet指绞刑架；常与定冠词连用。
The rebels were executed on the gibbet.
起义者们在绞刑架上被处死。
绞刑架；绞首台
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绞刑架；绞首台
a gallows; a structure used for hanging people
The rebels were executed on the gibbet.
起义者们在绞刑架上被处死。
用于行刑及随后公开展示的带横木的立柱。
An upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display.
绞刑架的别称
alternative terms for gallows
起重机的悬臂,负载悬挂其上。
The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended.
铁条制成的人形框架,用于公开展示被处决罪犯的尸体。
A human-shaped structure made of iron bands designed to publicly display the corpse of an executed criminal.
The old town square once had a stone gibbet where criminals were executed.
老城广场曾经有一座石砌的绞刑架，犯人被处决于此。
Tourists gathered around the rusty gibbet to hear the guide tell its grim history.
游客们围着那座生锈的绞刑架，听导游讲述它阴森的历史。
The museum displayed a wooden gibbet from the eighteenth century.
博物馆展出了一座十八世纪的木制绞刑架。
名词用法，gibbet指绞刑架；常与定冠词连用。
The rebels were executed on the gibbet.
起义者们在绞刑架上被处死。
gibbet在此借指绞刑这种刑罚。
The rebel leader was sent to the gibbet.
叛军首领被送上了绞刑架。
动词被动式；过去式/过去分词也可写作gibbetted。
The traitor was gibbeted in the marketplace.
叛徒在市场上被处绞刑并悬尸示众。
动词主动式，意为当众羞辱或嘲弄某人。
The satirical magazine gibbeted the corrupt official.
那家讽刺杂志公开嘲弄那名腐败官员。
Not this
The traitor was sent to gibbet.
Use this
The traitor was sent to the gibbet.
gibbet 作名词是可数名词，单数前必须加限定词（如 the/a），不能单独使用。
Not this
The murderer was gibbet.
Use this
The murderer was gibbeted.
被动语态需要用过去分词 gibbeted，不能用动词原形或名词形式作补语。
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被留在绞刑架上
The corpse was left on the gibbet as a warning to the townspeople.
那具尸体被留在绞刑架上，以儆效尤。
竖起绞刑架
The authorities erected a gibbet just outside the city walls.
当局在城墙外竖起了一座绞刑架。
被判处绞刑
The rebel leader was condemned to the gibbet.
叛军首领被判处绞刑。
将尸体挂在绞刑架上示众
They gibbeted the dead highwayman at the crossroads.
他们把那个已死的拦路强盗挂在十字路口的绞刑架上示众。
将某人的模拟像挂在绞刑架上示众
The angry crowd gibbeted the unpopular official in effigy.
愤怒的人群把那名不得人心的官员的模拟像挂在绞刑架上示众。
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gibbet 音近 giblet（鸡杂），想象罪犯被吊在绞刑架上像一块悬挂的肉。
语域：formal 常见场景：historical writing、literary descriptions、historical fiction gibbet（绞刑架）一词较古旧，多用于文学描写、历史叙述等书面语境；现代日常英语中很少见，通常可用 gallows 代替。
与 gibbet /ˈdʒɪbɪt/ 真正押韵的词有 ribbit /ˈrɪbɪt/（重读元音和后面的 /bɪt/ 相同）。gibberish /ˈdʒɪbərɪʃ/ 以相同的 /ˈdʒɪb/ 开头，但结尾不同。拼写相似的 rabbet、rabbit、habit、Tibet 并不押韵：rabbet 和 rabbit 的元音是 /æ/，habit 也是 /æ/，Tibet 的重音在第二音节 /bɛt/。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.