crucify

• vt. 折磨；十字架上钉死；克制

词态变化

英文词源

crucify (v.)

c. 1300, from Old French crucifer (12c., Modern French crucifier), from Vulgar Latin *crucificare, from Late Latin crucifigere "to fasten to a cross," from cruci, dative of Latin crux "cross" (see cross (n.)) + figere "fasten" (see fix (v.)). An ancient mode of capital punishment considered especially ignominious by the Romans. Figurative sense of "to torment" is 1620s. Related: Crucified; crucifying.

双语例句

1. She'll crucify me if she finds you still here.

如果她发现你还在这儿，她会狠狠地教训我。

来自柯林斯例句

2. If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify Him. They would ask Him to dinner, and hear what He had to say, and make fun of it.

倘使耶稣·基督今天出现的话, 人们将不会把他钉死在十字架上. 人们将会请他参加晚宴, 听听他有什么好讲的, 然后拿他寻寻开心的吧.

来自《简明英汉词典》

3. So you would take a man and crucify him on a pole for all to see?

所以你就会让一个人当众钉死十字架 吗 ?

来自电影对白

4. If Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify Him.

倘使耶稣·督今天出现的话, 人们将不会把钉在十字架上.

来自互联网

5. For even as love crowns you so small he crucify you.

爱虽然可以为你加冕,但也能将你钉上十字架.

来自互联网