Scaffold

(noun.) a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers.

(noun.) a platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded).

(verb.) provide with a scaffold for support; 'scaffold the building before painting it'.

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• I longed to leave them as the criminal on the scaffold longs for the axe to descend: that is, I wished the pang over. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Of how he came to follow Charles I to the scaffold we shall tell in a later section. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Every one of those had perished in the massacre; every human creature he had since cared for and parted with, had died on the scaffold. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• As it came on very dark, he began to think of all the men he had known who had died upon the scaffold; some of them through his means. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• He was taken one January morning in 1649 to a scaffold erected outside the windows of his own banqueting-room at Whitehall. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Cromwell had these qualities and mounted a throne, Rienzi had them and died on the scaffold—all through circumstances. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• The malefactor was fixed in a chair upon a scaffold erected for that purpose, and his head cut off at one blow, with a sword of about forty feet long. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Let's get the scaffolding up, then, for a pair of whiskers. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• At his initiation he went beneath a scaffolding on which the bull was killed, and the blood ran down on him. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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