retribution
英[retrɪ'bjuːʃ(ə)n]
美[,rɛtrɪ'bjuʃən]
- n. 报应；惩罚；报答；报偿
英英释意
- 1. a justly deserved penalty
- 2. the act of correcting for your wrongdoing
- 3. the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life;
- "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord"--Romans 12:19
- "For vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge"--James Garfield
- "he swore vengeance on the man who betrayed him"
- "the swiftness of divine retribution"