decapitation

基本解釋

But it was not all fiscal policy and decapitation.
但巴布爾的生活并不只是財政政策和斬首。
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.
革命體制黨的當(dāng)權(quán)期間，立法機(jī)構(gòu)領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者——凱撒.奧古斯托.圣地亞哥申明，“我以前從未在墨西哥街頭看到一例斬首事件”。
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.
基地組織將自身重組為權(quán)力更加分散的集團(tuán)，并且變得更加“親民”。這再次證明“斬首行動”沒有奏效。

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.
在英國內(nèi)戰(zhàn)中,叛亂武裝之所以最后能致使英格蘭君主查爾斯一世，在1649年被處以斬首，從文化層面上說,很大程度上是彌爾頓的功勞。
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節(jié)選

Israel's decapitation of Hamas will further weaken whatever influence Hamas had over them.
ECONOMIST: Israel and Palestine
Killing for pleasure has also been documented among headhunting cultures, in which decapitation was sometimes pursued as a recreational activity.
FORBES: Morality: Nature or Culture?
Yet like Katyn, which eliminated the flower of the pre-war Polish elite, the plane crash also seems like a decapitation of Polish society.
ECONOMIST: Poland's President Lech Kaczynski dies in a plane crash