impaled

英 [ɪmˈpeɪld]

美 [ɪmˈpeɪld]

v.  (用尖物)刺穿; (被)刺中，穿透
impale的过去分词和过去式

过去式：impaled　过去分词：impaled　

COCA.44775

柯林斯词典

• VERB (以尖物)刺穿,刺入
  Toimpalesomething on a pointed object means to cause the point to go into it or through it.
  1. Researchers observed one bird impale a rodent on a cactus...
     研究人员观察到一只鸟把一只啮齿动物钉在一棵仙人掌上。
  2. Lenny swayed for a moment, then dropped to the ground, impaling himself on his switchblade...
     伦尼晃了一下,然后倒在了地上,他的弹簧刀刺穿了自己的身体。
  3. The boy died after being impaled on railings when he slipped while playing.
     小男孩玩耍时失足滑倒,被栏杆刺穿身体致死。

双语例句

• In the Wangfujing night market, we'd seen live, shoe-size arthropods impaled on sticks, ready to be cooked, but the yuck factor was insurmountable.
  在王府井夜市上，我们看见了串在签子上、鞋子大小的活的节肢动物正等着下锅，但难吃、令人恶心的因素令我们难以逾越。
• The spook and the policeman are brought together by the gruesome death of former film star, Mabel Morgan, who is found impaled on the railings outside the block of flats where she lives.
  间谍与警察被一起可怕的谋杀案牵扯在一起，往日的电影明星美宝•摩根，被钉死在所住公寓外的栏杆上。
• They say that she is blood-thirsty, that those who speak against her are impaled on spikes to die lingering deaths.
  他们说她嗜血如命，据说那些对她出声反对的人都被钉在尖桩上享受漫长的死亡。
• One of them was carrying a tall spear with a dog's head impaled upon its point, the way that Kaspo told it.
  其中的一个带着一把顶端插有狗头的长矛，卡斯伯是这么说的。
• He then took the lengths of rope hanging from the cage and impaled them on the ground using a heavy pike.
  然后他拉住从笼中垂吊出来的绳子，用一个沉重的矛头把绳头牢牢的钉在地上。
• There's a man who's been impaled by what appears to be a unicorn.
  有个男人估计是被独角兽刺穿了。
• Do you know what it feels like to be humiliated and be impaled upon a cross?
  你明白被顶在十字架上和被羞辱的感觉么？
• After the Restoration of the Monarchy, Cromwell's head was impaled on a pole and displayed to the public.
  君主制复辟后，克伦威尔的头颅被挑在杆子上示众。
• Do you know what it feels like to be humiliated and impaled upon a cross and left to bleed to death for your amusement?
  你可知道为取悦你而遭羞辱并被钉死在十字架上的感受？
• Through technology and technocracy, Mr Rudd hopes to avoid being impaled on the horns of a herd of approaching dilemmas.
  通过技术与技术官僚政治，陆克文希望能够躲开一大批日益迫近的两难困境的利刺。