柯林斯英汉双解大词典
lynch /lɪntʃ/ TEM8 ( lynching, lynched, lynches )
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V-T If an angry crowd of people lynch someone, they kill that person by hanging them, without letting them have a trial, because they believe that that person has committed a crime. 对…以私刑绞死
例：They were about to lynch him when reinforcements from the army burst into the room and rescued him.
他们正要以私刑绞死他，军队就冲进房间救了他。
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lynching N-VAR 私刑绞死
例：Some towns found that lynching was the only way to drive away bands of outlaws.
有些城镇的人们发现私刑是惟一能够驱走那一帮帮歹徒的方法。
双语例句权威例句
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There's a law against lynching.
法律严禁滥用私刑。
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she collaborated with Eleanor Roosevelt in passing anti-lynching legislation;
她还和埃莉诺.罗斯福一起为通过废除私刑的法律而努力；
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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
法律无法让一个人爱我，这也许是真的，但法律却能阻止他对我用私刑，而我认为那是相当重要的。
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