waterboarding

waterboarding

美 ['wɔ:təbɔ:dɪŋ] 　英 ['wɔ:təbɔ:dɪŋ]

• n.水刑（仰卧溺水体验逼供）
• 网络坐水凳；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.

一种叫做水刑的审问技巧也很普遍。它是让审问对象经受溺水的感觉。

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

据悉，中央情报局已同意不再施“水板刑”*，但仍不确定它将采取什么奇术。

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

他同时指出，律师们告诉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，不管是从道德层面还是从法律层面来看，都让很多干员感到非常苦恼。

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

电视转播水刑的镜头会让观众倒抽一口气。

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

有些人还算客气：是否众议院发言人南茜·佩罗西在中情局2002年使用水刑的问题上得到了充分的指点。

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

奥巴马也勉为其难地对布什的律师提起公诉，控诉他主张waterboarding并不属于拷问因而纵然这一行为。

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

据我所知，还没有人提议对美联储施以“水刑”（waterboarding）。

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

奥巴马政府将使用水刑视作酷刑，而切尼则声称不是。

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

最严厉的方法——水刑，或模拟溺水——在被禁用之前，2003年曾在穆罕默德身上有过183次。

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

切尼对自己支持的诸如水刑的严刑逼供并未有悔意。

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

你真的会让4岁的比利遭受酷刑吗？

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·祖巴耶达赫在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，众议院议长NancyPelosi，就曾经被告知“水刑”一事，但是当时她并未提出反对。