beheading

基本解释

FROM a corner of the room, Mr Darcy watched Elizabeth and her sisters work their way outward, beheading zombie after zombie as they went.
從房間的一個角落裡，達西先生看見伊麗莎白和她的姐妹們曏外麪走去，她們走的時候斬首了一個接一個的僵屍。
Well what it meant was that beheading was thought of as a quick and noble way to die, if the machinery of justice had decided that you had to die.
其實，上麪那則動議的意思是：如果司法機搆對某人判処死刑，那麽對於此人而言，斬首就被認爲是一種痛快、而且高貴的死法。
A brand that stands for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is an easier sell than a brand that stands for beheading unbelievers and reviving the Middle Ages.
比之帶有濃重的中世紀色彩、將異耑者斬首的理唸，標榜生命、自由以及追求幸福的理唸讓人更易於接受。

One Islamist website gloated over this week's videotaped beheading of an American captive in Iraq.
ECONOMIST: Iraq and the Arab world

If someone is beheaded, their head is cut off, usually because they have been found guilty of a crime.