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lynch v.处以私刑 (1) 还没到晚上他们就想私自干掉他，可是他已经跑了。 Through history, when a group of people murders someone, especially by hanging him by the neck, they are usually said to lynch him. This was unfortunately not uncommon during the Civil Rights struggle of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the American South: if a white community believed an African American had done something wrong, they would sometimes lynch him. Lynch is named after Justice Charles Lynch, who condoned mob justice during the American Revolution.

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英 [lɪntʃ] 美 [lɪntʃ] (1) Before night they wanted to lynch him, but he was gone. To lynch is to murder, or unlawfully kill. When an angry mob kills someone they believe is guilty of a crime, they lynch that person. 1[VERB 动词]以私刑绞死（某人） 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.   [V n]They were about to lynch him when reinforcements from the army burst into the room and rescued him.他们正准备动私刑绞死他时，援军闯入房间把他救下了。lynchingSome towns found that lynching was the only way to drive away bands of outlaws.一些城镇发现，私处绞刑是赶走匪帮的唯一办法。

英语单词	lynch
英美音标	英 [lɪntʃ] 美 [lɪntʃ]
中文释义	v.处以私刑
英语例句	(1) Before night they wanted to lynch him, but he was gone.
中文例句	(1) 还没到晚上他们就想私自干掉他，可是他已经跑了。
vocabulary简明	To lynch is to murder, or unlawfully kill. When an angry mob kills someone they believe is guilty of a crime, they lynch that person.
vocabulary扩展	Through history, when a group of people murders someone, especially by hanging him by the neck, they are usually said to lynch him. This was unfortunately not uncommon during the Civil Rights struggle of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the American South: if a white community believed an African American had done something wrong, they would sometimes lynch him. Lynch is named after Justice Charles Lynch, who condoned mob justice during the American Revolution.
柯林斯解释	1 [VERB 动词]以私刑绞死（某人） 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. [V n] They were about to lynch him when reinforcements from the army burst into the room and rescued him. 他们正准备动私刑绞死他时，援军闯入房间把他救下了。 lynching Some towns found that lynching was the only way to drive away bands of outlaws. 一些城镇发现，私处绞刑是赶走匪帮的唯一办法。

Lynch American Angry Mob People Hanging Justice 英