executioner
executioner — 名詞
- executionersingular
- executionersplural
1. a person whose official job is to kill someone the courts have ordered to die, u
劊子手
依法執行死刑的人員
a person whose official job is to kill someone the courts have ordered to die, usually as part of a criminal punishment in a country that still uses the death penalty.
The medieval executioner wore a black hood to hide his face from the crowd in the square.
那位中世紀劊子手戴著黑色頭罩，以免廣場上的群眾看清他的臉。
definite-article + adjective + noun for historical setting
Sirin's history teacher explained how an executioner was paid extra for each beheading in 17th-century London.
Sirin 的歷史老師說明，在十七世紀的倫敦，劊子手每砍一顆人頭都能多拿一筆錢。
indefinite-article 'an executioner' in a generalising statement
The state's executioner pressed the button that delivered the lethal injection at one minute past midnight.
州政府的行刑者在午夜過後一分鐘按下按鈕，注入致命藥劑。
Few villagers were willing to act as the town's executioner, so the post often passed from father to son.
村裡幾乎沒人願意當鎮上的劊子手，因此這份差事常常由父親傳給兒子。
Ryo's new novel is told from the point of view of a 19th-century executioner.
Ryo 的新小說是以一位十九世紀劊子手的視角寫成的。
文法句型
the executioner of [someone]
用法筆記
Subject of action verbs like 'carry out', 'perform', 'refuse'. Often paired with the specific method as a modifier or follow-up (the masked executioner, the state's executioner, axe / firing-squad / lethal-injection executioner).