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单词 comeuppance
释义
comeuppance
noun[S]
informalhumorous
uk
/kʌmˈʌp.əns/us
/kʌmˈʌp.əns/
a person'sbadluckthat isconsideredto be afairanddeservedpunishmentfor somethingbadthat they have done:
应得的惩罚，报应
She'llgether comeuppance.她会得到报应的。
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Deserving and deserved
(Definition ofcomeuppancefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

comeuppance| American Dictionary

comeuppance
noun[U]
us
/kʌmˈʌp·əns/
apunishmentor somebadluckthat isconsideredto befairanddeservedpunishmentfor somethingbadthat someone has done:
She’ll get her comeuppance, don’tworry.
(Definition ofcomeuppancefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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He got hiscomeuppancewhen his council decided, at long last, to make a rate.
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I hope that they will get theircomeuppance.
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This isn't the expected tale of a grasping, gold digger who gets hercomeuppance.
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In true genre tradition, the alien gets its come-uppance faced with human ability to reason logically.
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Like all bad guys though, he eventually gets hiscomeuppance.
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In the end, the girl and boy get together and the villain gets hiscomeuppance.
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As a result, they were in constant battles with one another, with each in turn getting theircomeuppancefor pranks which were often quite violent.
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He usually says this as a reaction to getting hiscomeuppance.
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He tried it on and he got hiscomeuppance.
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He also suffers an ironiccomeuppancefrom a dentist he has cuckolded.
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He gets hiscomeuppancetowards the end, his dubious past revealed and is imprisoned.
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He says that the two city dwellers got their justcomeuppance.
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However, the girlfriend gets hercomeuppancewhen the man she cheated on her previous boyfriend with ends up cheating on "her" with another woman.
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At the same time, there are many out dated ideas in this book, such as feudalism and superstition,comeuppanceand ideas of fatalism, along with some explicit love scenes.
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Stories were generally moralistic in tone, with long-suffering heroines finally achieving happiness, while villainous relatives or girls who were liars, cheats and bullies received theircomeuppance.
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