vengeance
英 ['ven(d)?(?)ns]
美['v?nd??ns]
- n. 復仇；報復；報仇
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中文詞源
vengeance 復仇
來自古法語vengier,復仇，報仇，詞源同vindication,vendetta.
英文詞源
- vengeance
- vengeance: see vindicate
- vengeance (n.)
- c. 1300, from Anglo-French vengeaunce, Old French vengeance, venjance "revenge, retribution" (12c.), from vengier "take revenge," from Latin vindicare "assert a claim, claim as one's own; avenge, punish" (see vindicate).
Vengeance is mine, ... saith the Lord. Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink; for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head. [Paul to the Romans, xii:19-20]
雙語例句
- 1. He vowed to wreak vengeance on his unfaithful, thieving wife.
- 他發誓要報復對自己不忠、愛偷東西的妻子。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Not all acts of vengeance are of equal gravity.
- 并非所有的報復行為都同等惡劣。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. It began to rain again with a vengeance.
- 又開始下起了大雨。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. a desire for vengeance
- 復仇心
來自《權威詞典》
- 5. She is determined to wreak vengeance on those who killed her cousin.
- 她決心要向殺害表妹的兇手報仇.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》