waterboarding

waterboarding

美 ['w?:t?b?:d??] 　英 ['w?:t?b?:d??]

• n.水刑（仰臥溺水體驗逼供）
• 網絡坐水凳；水囚刑；水板刑

例句

The technique known as waterboarding, in which the subject experiences the sensation that they are drowning, was also common.

一種叫做水刑的審問技巧也很普遍。它是讓審問對象經受溺水的感覺。

It has reportedly agreed to stop waterboarding people. But it is unclear which subtleties it still plans to employ.

據悉，中央情報局已同意不再施“水板刑”*，但仍不確定它將采取什么奇術。

He points out that his lawyers told him that waterboarding was not torture.

他同時指出，律師們告訴他施以水刑算不上是虐囚。

Waterboarding, in particular, troubled many officials, from both a moral and a legal perspective.

尤其是水刑，不管是從道德層面還是從法律層面來看，都讓很多干員感到非常苦惱。

The televised glimpses of waterboarding will provoke gasps among the audience.

電視轉播水刑的鏡頭會讓觀眾倒抽一口氣。

Some have been small: whether or not House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was adequately briefed on the CIA's use of waterboarding in 2002.

有些人還算客氣：是否眾議院發言人南茜·佩羅西在中情局2002年使用水刑的問題上得到了充分的指點。

Mr Obama is also reluctant to prosecute Mr Bush's lawyers for arguing that waterboarding was not torture, and therefore allowable.

奧巴馬也勉為其難地對布什的律師提起公訴，控訴他主張waterboarding并不屬于拷問因而縱然這一行為。

To my knowledge, no one has proposed waterboarding the US Federal Reserve.

據我所知，還沒有人提議對美聯儲施以“水刑”（waterboarding）。

The Obama administration views the use of waterboarding as torture, while Cheney claims it is not.

奧巴馬政府將使用水刑視作酷刑，而切尼則聲稱不是。

The most severe method - waterboarding, or simulated drowning - was used on Mohammed 183 times in 2003, before the practice was banned.

最嚴厲的方法——水刑，或模擬溺水——在被禁用之前，2003年曾在穆罕默德身上有過183次。

Cheney was unapologetic about the harsh interrogation methods that he had approved, such as waterboarding.

切尼對自己支持的諸如水刑的嚴刑逼供并未有悔意。

Will you really carry out your threat to subject four-year-old Billy to waterboarding?

你真的會讓4歲的比利遭受酷刑嗎？

Abu Zubaydah, a Saudi captured in Pakistan in March 2002, was subjected to waterboarding 83 times in August 2002.

而2002年3月在巴基斯坦被捕的沙特人阿布·祖巴耶達赫在2002年8月遭受了83次水刑。

For example, Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House, was briefed about waterboarding and raised no objections.

比如，眾議院議長NancyPelosi，就曾經被告知“水刑”一事，但是當時她并未提出反對。