vengeance

• n. 複仇；報複；報仇

來自古法語vengier,複仇，報仇，詞源同vindication,vendetta.

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]

1. He vowed to wreak vengeance on his unfaithful, thieving wife.

他發誓要報複對自己不忠、愛偷東西的妻子。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Not all acts of vengeance are of equal gravity.

並非所有的報複行為都同等惡劣。

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

複仇心

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凶手報仇.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》