电椅 (diàn yī) — electric chair

Definition

Examples

• 这座监狱曾经使用电椅执行死刑。
  Zhè zuò jiān yù céng jīng shǐ yòng diàn yī zhí xíng sǐ xíng.
  This prison once used the electric chair to carry out executions.
• 在电影里，他被判处坐电椅。
  Zài diàn yǐng lǐ, tā bèi pàn chǔ zuò diàn yī.
  In the movie, he was sentenced to the electric chair.
• 这种电椅是二十世纪初发明的。
  Zhè zhǒng diàn yī shì èr shí shì jì chū fā míng de.
  This type of electric chair was invented in the early twentieth century.