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单词 vengeance
释义
vengeance
noun[U]
uk
/ˈven.dʒəns/us
/ˈven.dʒəns/
thepunishingof someone forharmingyou oryourfriendsorfamily, or thewishfor suchpunishmenttohappen:
报仇，复仇，抱复；复仇心
On thedayafter theterroristattack, theoverallmoodin thetownwas one of vengeance.在恐怖主义袭击发生后的第二天，镇上人们普遍的情绪就是要复仇。
As hecradledhis daughter'slifelessbodyin hisarms, heswore(to take)vengeanceonherkillers.他紧抱着女儿的尸体，发誓要找杀害她的凶手报仇。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Revenge and vengefulness
  • avenge
  • avenger
  • bite
  • bite back (atsomeone/something)
  • don't get mad, get evenidiom
  • eye
  • hit
  • medicine
  • mind
  • pay
  • paysomeone/somethingback
  • reprisal
  • retaliate
  • retaliation
  • retaliatory
  • tit for tat
  • two can play at that gameidiom
  • vengeful
  • vengefully
  • vengefulness
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Idiom

with a vengeance
(Definition ofvengeancefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

vengeance| American Dictionary

vengeance
noun[U]
us
/ˈven·dʒəns/
actionagainst someone topunishthatpersonfor havinghurtyou:
Shecriedout for vengeance.
(Definition ofvengeancefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofvengeance

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However, when the economic situation began to deteriorate again in the early 1950s, old problems re-emerged with avengeance.
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However, our results suggest that across the world's democratic systems it is not parties per se that shape voters' cognitive attributions ofvengeanceand reward.
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Here is where the history and sociology of science reenter the metanarrative with avengeance.
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Though after his death, commitment to controlling the disease has waned and it is now back with avengeance.
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Not only physical torment but mental torments were necessitated since it was a property ofvengeancethat the wicked should be sensible of their misery.
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They therefore reverted with avengeanceto their traditional forms of rebellion and acquisition which had proven so effective before.
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Even infidelity of the most venal kind does not justify suchvengeance.
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Unfortunately, they pursue another traditional dualism with avengeance, that of animal and environment.
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He seems to relish his day ofvengeancebefore it has happened.
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Readers were therefore liable to imaginevengeanceas a private matter rather than a blow against political tyranny.
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Here were "the laws" returning to the literary realm with avengeance.
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He vows that only a "sweeping and consummatevengeancefor the indignity alone should satisfy him".
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They believed that tragedy was in their hands and that anyone who transgressed their laws would suffervengeanceas a result.
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The bookshelves in her office groan with work on historical institutions - the state is back in with avengeance.
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At the same time the purpose of punishment is to propagate virtue by warnings rather than to exactvengeancefor crimes committed.
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