中英互译
waterboarding
英 /ˈwɔːtəbɔːdɪŋ/美 /ˈwɔːtərbɔːrdɪŋ/
基本释义
- n.水刑
双语例句
- How about waterboarding?水刑算不算？
- To my knowledge, no one has proposed waterboarding the US Federal Reserve.据我所知，还没有人提议对美联储施以“水刑”（waterboarding）。
- He points out that his lawyers told him that waterboarding was not torture.他同时指出，律师们告诉他施以水刑算不上是虐囚。
英英释义
- Waterboarding is a form of torture in which water is poured over a cloth covering the face and breathing passages of an immobilized captive, causing the individual to experience the sensation of drowning. Waterboarding can cause extreme pain, dry drowning, damage to lungs, brain damage from oxygen deprivation, other physical injuries including broken bones due to struggling against restraints, lasting psychological damage, and death.
词源
- waterboarding水刑比喻用法。