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A guillotine is a machine with a heavy blade that drops down to cut something quickly and . It is most famous as the device used in France, especially during the French Revolution, to execute people by cutting off their heads. Today, "guillotine" is also used for a small paper-cutting tool built the same way, used to cut stacks of paper.
斷頭台;(引申)裁紙機
組成Named after Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, a French doctor who proposed it as a quicker, more standardized form of execution, though he did not invent the machine himself.
原始詞典資料10 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
guillotinenoun詞源 1/ˈɡɪlətiːn/
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historicalA machine used for the application of capital punishment by decapitation, consisting of a tall upright frame from which is suspended a heavy diagonal-edged blade which is dropped onto the neck of the person to be executed; also, execution using this machine.
- For two-and-twenty years he [Joseph-Ignace Guillotin], unguillotined, shall hear nothing but guillotine, see nothing but guillotine; then dying, shall through long centuries wander, as it were, a disconsolate ghost, on the wrong side of Styx and Lethe; his name like to outlive [Julius] Cæsar’s.
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A device or machine with a cutting blade.
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medicinesciencessurgeryA device or machine with a cutting blade.
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informalgovernmentlawpoliticsA parliamentary procedure for fixing the dates when various stages of discussion of a bill must end, to ensure that the enactment of the bill proceeds expeditiously.
- The right hon. Gentleman is making a great stooshie about time in relation to this Bill, but was it not the case that, when the SNP [Scottish National Party] Scottish Government introduced their continuity Bill in the Scottish Parliament, they operated a ruthless guillotine to prevent proper scrutiny of it? That is the case; they ran a guillotine on that Bill, and there was a very limited amount of time allowed for debate and scrutiny, yet he complains about that happening here.
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informalgovernmentlawpoliticsA legislative motion that debate be ended and a vote taken; a cloture.
guillotineverb詞源 2/ˈɡɪlətiːn/
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To use a guillotine (on someone or something).
- Many counterrevolutionaries were guillotined during the French Revolution.
- Besides providing online courses to their own (generally fee-paying) students, universities have felt obliged to join the MOOC revolution to avoid being guillotined by it.
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To use a guillotine (on someone or something).
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informalgovernmentlawpoliticsTo end discussion (about a parliamentary bill or part of one) by invoking a guillotine procedure.
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informalgovernmentlawpoliticsTo end (a legislative debate) by invoking cloture.
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To end anything abruptly.
- Forgetting Solitaire, he almost dragged Bond through the door. At the last moment he remembered the girl and seized her with his other hand and pulled her in too, banging the door shut with his heel so that Mrs Stuyvesant's 'I hope you have a happy...' was guillotined before the 'stay'.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。