guillotining

1. Blessed by the privilege of wealth, birth or both, 24 teenage girls on Saturday descend on Paris'debutantes ball, an aristocratic tradition that survived France's guillotining of royalty over 200 years ago.
    上周六，或来自豪门、或出身贵族的24位少女名媛翩然降临巴黎成年舞会。200多年前法国人将王室送上断头台，而这项贵族传统却历经考验，流传至今。

2. Wing effect: The result of out-of-square guillotining of a book: when the book is opened the edges look like a pair of butterfly wings rather than being parallel along the tops and bottoms.
    蝶形效果：书本裁切不正方的结果.当打开书本时，上下书边不平行，像一对蝴蝶翅膀似的。