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单词 vendetta
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vendetta
noun[C]
uk
/venˈdet.ə/us
/venˈdet̬.ə/
alongandviolentargumentbetweenpeopleorfamilies, in which onegrouptriestoharmthe other inordertopunishthem for things thathappenedin the past:
世仇；族间血仇；宿怨
Hesawhimself as thevictimof apersonalvendetta beingwagedby hispoliticalenemies.他觉得自己成了政敌挑起的个人积怨的牺牲品。
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(Definition ofvendettafrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

vendetta| American Dictionary

vendetta
noun[C]
us
/venˈdet̬·ə/
astrongdesiretoharmapersonorgroup, often because ofpoliticalreasonsorfeelingsofhate:
Theyaccusedthespecialprosecutorofcarryingon a vendetta against theWhiteHouse.
(Definition ofvendettafrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofvendetta

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To connect them with somevendettaagainst linguistic and logical structure seems philosophically otiose.
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Men (and to some extent women) prospered through plots and vendettas.
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Steps such as ostracism, boycotts, loss of employment, and public denunciation could be used against those who broke the law, as could a variety of self-help measures, such as vendettas.
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Anyone with sufficient money and influence can make use of state institutions to harm his opponents, whether in land or business disputes or in personal vendettas.
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Her thorough grounding in the literature of cultural anthropology, particularly the scholarship on honour, shame andvendettahelps to set the notional stage of factionalism and civil strife.
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That is backed up by anothervendetta—the ministerialvendetta.
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They have also mounted a sustainedvendettaagainst local government, destroying the essential foundation for secure and positive local communities.
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It is avendetta, with stinging penalties for any local authority that does not bow the knee to his personal diktat.
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It is important that we put aside recriminations and past vendettas.
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In the continuance of petrol rationing we see only anothervendettaagainst the private motorist.
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Is not that the reason for thisvendetta?
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There appears to be an extraordinaryvendettaagainst the single-premium policy friendly societies.
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Of course, that fact might explain why there is avendetta.
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They said that it was avendettaagainst the county grammar schools.
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Unfortunately, we have come full circle and there has been no easing of thevendetta.
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