decapitation

基本解释

But it was not all fiscal policy and decapitation.
但巴布尔的生活并不只是财政政策和斩首。
While the PRI was in power, “I never saw a decapitation in the streets of Mexico,” says César Augusto Santiago, one of its leaders in the legislature.
革命体制党的当权期间，立法机构领导者——凯撒.奥古斯托.圣地亚哥申明，“我以前从未在墨西哥街头看到一例斩首事件”。
Al Qaeda in Yemen has reconstituted itself as a decentralized group that is more attuned to local grievances; again, decapitation is unlikely to do the trick.
基地组织将自身重组为权力更加分散的集团，并且变得更加“亲民”。这再次证明“斩首行动”没有奏效。

Milton in fact was largely responsible in a cultural sense for the fact that the armed rebellion of England's civil war, what we think of as the Puritan Revolution, actually led to the execution by decapitation of England's monarch Charles the First in 1649.
在英国内战中,叛乱武装之所以最后能致使英格兰君主查尔斯一世，在1649年被处以斩首，从文化层面上说,很大程度上是弥尔顿的功劳。
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Killing for pleasure has also been documented among headhunting cultures, in which decapitation was sometimes pursued as a recreational activity.
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Yet like Katyn, which eliminated the flower of the pre-war Polish elite, the plane crash also seems like a decapitation of Polish society.
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