and to take them home for the gibbet would have been a cruel sort of kindness.
如果把他们带回国去再送上绞架，那也算不得仁慈。It might be, too, that a witch, like old Mistress Hibbins, the bitter-tempered widow of the magistrate, was to DIE upon the gallows.
也许，那是地方官的遗愿西宾斯老夫人那样生性恶毒的巫婆，将要给吊死在绞架上。On the top of the gallows is fixed the knife, blade upwards, with its point in the air.
绞架顶上捆着他那把刀，刀口向上，刀尖在空中。They had come to the Waste not for the silence, but because only jails and nooses awaited them in the forests and towns of the east.
他们来到荒野，不是寻找寂静，而是因为在东方的森林和城镇，有枷锁和绞架等候着他们。They did not send an innocent man to the gallows.
被他们送上绞架的并不是一个无辜的人。There was a gust of wind over the hilltop , and the old gallows fell down right on the horse's neck.
山顶上刮起了一阵狂风，那腐朽的绞架被风刮倒落下，正好牢牢套在马脖子上。Other times they were hung by either the quartermaster or when they were captured by the Spanish or other enemy.
其他时候，当他犯规或者是为西班牙或其他的敌人捕获时，他会被悬挂在绞架上。It happened that at the top of a hill a gallows had been set up at a cross-roads long ago.
巧得很，山顶上有个绞架，是很久以前竖在十字路口上的。It was not victors' justice but victims' justice that condemned him to hang.
是受害者的正义，而非战胜者的正义，把萨达姆送上了绞架。