Jack Ketch绞刑吏；刽子手

【使用地区】：英国

【释义】：

An executioner．Jack Ketch was generally regarded as a clumsy，barbaric bungler：it took him several strokes to sever William，Lord Russell’s head after he moved slightly when the ax was falling．Ketch later apologized for his clumsiness，explaining that he had been disturbed while taking aim．No one believed him，though，and his name became the name for a public executioner and a mark of execration long before he died in 1683．

意义如上所示。Jack Ketch通常被认为是笨拙、野蛮的人。他砍了好几下才把William，Lord Russell的头割下来。斧头落下时，他身子微微颤动。后来他为自己的笨拙行为作了道歉。他解释说，当对准目标时他感到心神不安。没有人相信他的解释，而在他1683年死去之前，他的名字早就成了“刽子手”的代名词和诅咒的象征。