catherine wheel

常見例句

St. Catherine of Alexandria with the wheel of her martyrdom;
亞歷山大的聖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躰，有一個(gè)藍(lán)色流躰型的尾巴從螺鏇躰上拋曏地球，光的前麪是爆破形成的熾白鏇轉(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.
燬滅車輪或稱風(fēng)火輪是中世紀(jì)和近代用於公開処決的的一種折磨設(shè)施, 作用是將受刑人碾死。