| 词汇 | comeuppance |
| 释义 | comeuppance noun[ S ] informalhumorousuk /kʌmˈʌp.əns/ us /kʌmˈʌp.əns/ a person's bad luck that is considered to be a fair and deserved punishment for something bad that they have done: 应得的惩罚，报应 get your comeuppance She'll get her comeuppance.她会得到报应的。 Justice and fairness all's fair in love and waridiom anti-bias anti-discrimination anti-egalitarian anti-nepotism EDI EDIB egalitarian egalitarianism environmental justice it's a fair copidiom justice justness karma liberalize reap sportsman sportsmanlike sportsmanship without fear or favouridiom You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Deserving and deserved comeuppance | American Dictionarycomeuppance noun[ U ] us/kʌmˈʌp·əns/ a punishment or some bad luck that is considered to be fair and deserved punishment for something bad that someone has done: She’ll get her comeuppance, don’t worry. Examples of comeuppancecomeuppance He got his comeuppance when his council decided, at long last, to make a rate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I hope that they will get their comeuppance. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This isn't the expected tale of a grasping, gold digger who gets her comeuppance. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In true genre tradition, the alien gets its come-uppance faced with human ability to reason logically. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Like all bad guys though, he eventually gets his comeuppance. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In the end, the girl and boy get together and the villain gets his comeuppance. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. As a result, they were in constant battles with one another, with each in turn getting their comeuppance for pranks which were often quite violent. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He usually says this as a reaction to getting his comeuppance. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He tried it on and he got his comeuppance. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He also suffers an ironic comeuppance from a dentist he has cuckolded. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He gets his comeuppance towards the end, his dubious past revealed and is imprisoned. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He says that the two city dwellers got their just comeuppance. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. However, the girlfriend gets her comeuppance when the man she cheated on her previous boyfriend with ends up cheating on "her" with another woman. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. At the same time, there are many out dated ideas in this book, such as feudalism and superstition, comeuppance and ideas of fatalism, along with some explicit love scenes. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Stories were generally moralistic in tone, with long-suffering heroines finally achieving happiness, while villainous relatives or girls who were liars, cheats and bullies received their comeuppance. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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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