executioners
n.刽子手(复数):执行死刑的人,负责处决死刑犯的人。
例句
"Gentlemen, I wish you luck," he said to his executioners.
“先生们,祝你们好运,”他对行刑者说。
As he wrote himself: "the language marches in step with the executioners."
他写道:“语言与刽子手并肩前行。”
So long as it is worth so little to its executioners, this forest, too, may go.
只要这片森林对于它的毁灭者来说无甚价值可言,它就也可能消失。