gas chamber

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A sealed chamber in which people are executed with poison gas.
    — There was this boy I sent to the gas chamber at Huntsville here a while back. My arrest and my testimony. He killed a fourteen-year-old girl. Papers said it was a crime of passion but he told me there wasn't any passion to it. Told me that he'd been planning to kill somebody for about as long as he could remember. Said that if they turned him out he'd do it again.
  2. Any close, stinking room or place. figuratively
    — Leiter wound down a window. 'Whaddya want ter do?' asked the driver over his shoulder. 'Gimme pneumony?' 'Just that,' said Leiter, 'if it means saving us from this gas chamber.'

词形变化

gas chambers plural
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