| 单词 | the scaffold |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe scaffold 6. An elevated platform on which a criminal is executed. to go to the scaffold (= ‘to be executed’), to bring or send to the scaffold, etc. Hence the scaffold is often put for ‘execution’, ‘capital punishment’. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > [noun] > gallows > parts of > platform stagec1400 scaffold1548 scaffold step1843 1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. xl He was at Salsburye..on a newe skaffolde beheded. 1592 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) viii. xl. 177 Shee vnabashed, mounting now the Skaffold, theare attends The fatall Stroke. 1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales xiv. iv. 204 He brought to the skaffold many descended of noble houses. 1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. xiv. 92 Paths, which naturally conduct a minister to the scaffold. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth i, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. III. 19 I knew at Paris a criminal..who suffered the sentence..showing no particular degree of timidity upon the scaffold. 1849 A. Alison Hist. Europe from French Revol. (new ed.) III. xiii. 92 We have..weighed the scaffold against the oppression of the Convention, and preferred the scaffold. 1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest IV. xviii. 256 The one man whom..William sent to the scaffold on a political charge. < as lemmas |
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