catherine wheel

常見例句

St. Catherine of Alexandria with the wheel of her martyrdom;
亞歷山大的圣凱瑟琳帶著她的殉難之輪；
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Witnesses across Norway all described seeing a spinning "Catherine wheel-style spiral of white light, centered around a bright moon-like star."
其圓心間是月亮一樣的星體，有一個藍色流體型的尾巴從螺旋體上拋向地球，光的前面是爆破形成的熾白旋轉(zhuǎn)光環(huán)。
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Breaking wheel or the Catherine wheel was a torture device used for capital punishment in the Middle Ages and early modern times for public execution by cudgelling to death.
毀滅車輪或稱風火輪是中世紀和近代用于公開處決的的一種折磨設施, 作用是將受刑人碾死。