Lizzy Borden
/ˌlɪzi ˈbɔːdn/
/ˌlɪzi ˈbɔːrdn/
- (1860-1927) an American woman who was accused of murdering her rich father and stepmother with an axe (= a tool with a heavy metal edge for cutting wood) on 4 August 1892. Her trial was a famous event. She was judged to be innocent, but many people still believed her guilty. Her name is remembered in a popular children's rhyme that begins:
“Lizzy Borden took an axeAnd gave her mother forty whacks.And when she saw what she had done,She gave her father forty-one.”莉兹·博登(Lizzy Borden):(1860-1927年)的一名美国妇女,被指控于1892年8月4日用斧头杀死她富有的父亲和继母(用重金属刀刃砍木头的工具)。她的审判是著名的事件。她被判定是无辜的,但许多人仍然相信她有罪。她的名字在流行的儿童韵中被记住: