柯林斯詞典capital punishment 1. N-UNCOUNT Capital punishment is punishment which involves the legal killing of a person who has committed a serious crime such as murder. 死刑 There have been demands from some politicians to reintroduce capital punishment. 已經(jīng)有一些政治家要求重新啟用死刑。 返回 capital punishment劍橋詞典punishment by death , as ordered by a legal system 死刑，極刑 比較the death penalty 返回 capital punishment