| 词汇 | retaliatory |
| 释义 | retaliatory adjective uk /rɪˈtæl.i.ə.tər.i/ us /rɪˈtæl.i.ə.tɔːr.i/ A retaliatory action is one that is harmful to someone who has done something to harm you: 报复的;回击的 retaliatory measures报复性措施 He urged people not to resort to retaliatory violence.他力劝人们不要以暴制暴。 Revenge and vengefulness avenge avenger bite bite back (at someone/something) counter-retaliation eye fix karma medicine pay pay someone/something back reprisal retaliate retaliation strike that will show someoneidiom tit for tat two can play at that gameidiom vengeance vengeful retaliatory | Business Englishretaliatory adjective uk /rɪˈtæliətəri/ us /rɪˈtæliətɔri/ used to describe an action that is intended to harm someone who has done something to harm you: retaliatory action/measures/sanctionsThe bill ends tax subsidies for US exporters that caused retaliatory action by Europe. Examples of retaliatoryretaliatory This work sheds light on the cognitive mechanisms in retaliatory aggression. This is typically countered by retaliatory publicity from the opposing side. The nuclear powers, relying on the retaliatory capabilities of the strategic deterrent, regarded their territory as a sanctuarium. Insensitive items included some behaviors characteristic of the second and third factors in addition to punitive, retaliatory behavior, and annoyance directed toward the baby. Moreover, the role of deviant peers may explain why victimized youth may engage in aggressive and delinquent behaviors that are not retaliatory in nature. Furthermore, he noted that retaliatory aggression in response to threat often moves well beyond the defense of self to destruction of a threatening opponent. Because my students had attended class, therefore, none were vulnerable to the retaliatory measures that the university contemplated. Thus, the contribution of ethology has been to identify a type of aggressive behavior that is an emotionally frenzied self-defensive and retaliatory response to the perception of threat. This work suggests that humans may be born with the aggressive retaliatory response in their repertoire and may acquire the capacity to inhibit that response during the course of development. The long-assumed tipping point of indigenous agro-pastoralism in the calamitous 1890s (rinderpest, rebellion and retaliatory land seizures) is shown to have had a class and gender dimension. Albeit, these inclusions may not be used liberally by countries as there is always the risk of retaliatory political and economic punishment. The key aspect of reactive aggression is the response to threat, or, rather, the perception that one is under threat; hence, the term used is retaliatory aggression. The war episode that is built into the type of equilibrium we have just described is not a retaliatory move implemented to make good on a deterrent threat. This would have paved the way for a complete reformulation of the tariff reform programme based upon the essentially domestic applications of protectionist, retaliatory and revenue-raising tariffs. In the conventional context of a high explosive strike or the quasi-conventional context of a chemical attack, we have absolutely no retaliatory posture. 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. |
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