V-T If someone is electrocuted, they are accidentally killed or badly injured when they touch something connected to a source of electricity. 使…触电 (死亡或受伤)
Three people were electrocuted by falling power lines.
三人被落下来的电线电死了。
V-T If a criminal is electrocuted, he or she is executed using electricity. 电刑处死 [usu passive]
He was electrocuted for a murder committed when he was 17.
他因为17岁时犯下的谋杀罪而被电刑处死。
electrocution N-VAR 电刑处死
The court pronounced him guilty and sentenced him to death by electrocution.
法庭宣判他有罪，并判他电刑处死。
8 million die annually from pollution and poisoning; and millions of birds are electrocuted each year by transmission and distribution lines carrying power produced by nuclear and coal power plants.
每年有800万人死于污染和中毒；每年有数百万只禽类被运载有核能和燃煤发电厂的电力的输配电线路电死。
He said some of the victims were electrocuted.
他说一些受害者甚至触电致死。
Many are hit by trains or cars, or electrocuted by low-hanging power lines. Others fall to ivory poachers.
很多被汽车或者火车撞到，要么就是被低处的电线电到。
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