| 词汇 | retaliation |
| 释义 | retaliation noun[ U ] uk /rɪˌtæl.iˈeɪ.ʃən/ us /rɪˌtæl.iˈeɪ.ʃən/ the act of hurting someone or doing something harmful to someone because they have done or said something harmful to you: 报复;反击 The bomb attack was in retaliation for the recent arrest of two well-known terrorists.这次炸弹袭击是对最近逮捕两名著名恐怖分子的报复。 She suffered severe retaliation for writing articles for the newspapers.她因给报纸写文章而遭到严重的报复。 See retaliate The government fears retaliation after the attacks. They are angry about a loss of manufacturing jobs and have threatened retaliation. He offered to protect victims from retaliation following complaints. Revenge and vengefulness avenge avenger bite bite back (at someone/something) counter-retaliation eye fix karma medicine pay pay someone/something back reprisal retaliate retaliatory strike that will show someoneidiom tit for tat two can play at that gameidiom vengeance vengeful Examples of retaliationretaliation However, retaliation against implicit environmental subsidies is not permitted under these rules. After such incidents, a wife is usually able to exercise greater autonomy without having to fear her husband's retaliation. In retaliation, the vine growers set fire to the merchants' warehouses, occupied city halls, and organized demonstrations. There was no electoral retaliation at the congressional level either. Optimal tariffs are difficult to implement in practice, given the possibility of retaliation and the inefficiencies in disbursing the collected tariffs. Even if the plaintiff state retaliates at the end of the dispute, the effects of retaliation will most likely fall on other industries. That is, the aggressive boys retaliated aggressively, and the nonaggressive boys withheld any retaliation. The takeover of fields under the provisions of the new law led to bitter recriminations, divorces (as retaliations against family groups) and other conflicts. Punishment is invariably costly to those who administer it, and hence, is altruistic, because it takes time and energy and invites retaliation. Resistance and protest in response to being thwarted predate retaliation, but all occur in the first year. Results suggest that such programs might focus on adolescents' means-based judgments of the justifiability of aggressive behaviors and retaliation. There was a clash between two military needs-the need for retaliation and the long-term need for defensive arms. These works, known as zarzuelas costumbristas, were understood as a form of nationalist retaliation against foreign influence. Any retaliation we now engage in he assumes would be gratuitous cruelty. It was no coincidence that he referred to these reprisals not as retaliation but as peacetime military operations. See all examples of retaliation These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations withretaliationretaliationThese are words often used in combination with retaliation. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. fear of retaliation This fearofretaliation in future interactions, if one has not behaved well, creates a powerful incentive to cooperate. form of retaliation I hope that it will not be necessary to have recourse to any formofretaliation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 massive retaliation The first idea was massiveretaliation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with retaliation |
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