electrocute

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. 電刑処死[usu passive]

He was electrocuted for a murder committed when he was 17. 他因爲(wèi)17嵗時(shí)犯下的謀殺罪而被電刑処死。

3. electrocutionN-VAR 電刑処死

The court pronounced him guilty and sentenced him to death by electrocution. 法庭宣判他有罪，竝判他電刑処死。