electrocute

1. V-T If someone is electrocuted, they are accidentally killed or badly injured when they touch something connected to a source of electricity. 使…触电 (死亡或受伤)

Three people were electrocuted by falling power lines. 三人被落下来的电线电死了。

2. V-T If a criminal is electrocuted, he or she is executed using electricity. 电刑处死[usu passive]

He was electrocuted for a murder committed when he was 17. 他因为17岁时犯下的谋杀罪而被电刑处死。

3. electrocutionN-VAR 电刑处死

The court pronounced him guilty and sentenced him to death by electrocution. 法庭宣判他有罪，并判他电刑处死。