vengeance的意思|vengeance的解释-里氏词典

vengeance ['vendʒәns]

n. 复仇, 报仇

[法] 报仇, 复仇

vengeance

[ noun ]
the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life
<noun.act>
Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the LordFor vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge
he swore vengeance on the man who betrayed him
the swiftness of divine retribution

Vengeance \Venge"ance\, n. [F. vengeance, fr. venger to avenge,
L. vindicare to lay claim to, defend, avenge, fr. vindex a
claimant, defender, avenger, the first part of which is of
uncertain origin, and the last part akin to dicere to say.
See {Diction}, and cf. {Avenge}, {Revenge}, {Vindicate}.]
1. Punishment inflicted in return for an injury or an
offense; retribution; -- often, in a bad sense, passionate
or unrestrained revenge.

To me belongeth vengeance and recompense. --Deut.
xxxii. 35.

To execute fierce vengeance on his foes. --Milton.

2. Harm; mischief. [Obs.] --Shak.

{What a vengeance}, or {What the vengeance}, what! --
emphatically. [Obs.] ``But what a vengeance makes thee
fly!'' --Hudibras. ``What the vengeance! Could he not
speak 'em fair?'' --Shak.

{With a vengeance}, with great violence; as, to strike with a
vengeance. [Colloq.]

"The dollar could turn with a vengeance," said Carlo Galazzi, senior dealer at Nikko Bank (U.K) Ltd. in London.
Now, as then, it would be better if he were not there - but it would be wrong to seek to overthrow him purely for reasons of vengeance or political gain.
People see all these ugliest facts of mismanagement and justly demand a strict punishment of the culprits, not because of vengeance but to assert the realisation that it is inadmissible and impossible to throw the people's resources to the winds.
In the 1980s, however, when students are perceived to be to the right of their academic mentors and "student life" administrators, the apparatus of universities "in loco parentis" is being rebuilt with a vengeance.
"I don't give a damn about vengeance," he thunders.
Underground leaders of the Palestinian uprising had called for Wednesday to be a day of vengeance against Arabs aiding the Israelis.
A municipal employee pleaded innocent Wednesday to charges that he murdered Jewish extremist Meir Kahane, while followers of the slain right-wing rabbi called for vengeance.
The 49-year-old woman knows the effects of vengeance first-hand. Contras killed her husband and eldest son.
Then, as with many companies in the printing industry, recession hit with a vengeance.
Held in check to some degree in northern Iraq by U.N. patrols, Saddam and his forces have turned their vengeance on the Shiite south.
He returned to Pasadena with a vengeance, vowing to win a starting role on the court.
"It's Yeltsin who is the stabilizing influence in the country now." But Mr. Gorbachev insists he is back, and with a vengeance.
The rebels say they will resume battle with a vengeance.
Mr. Simes pointed out that the Soviets should be wary of the euphoria that this visit was creating in America, because it might turn with a vengeance if it went unfulfilled.
Women are exempt from blood vengeance, and traditionally have taken over the field work of any male relatives who feared their lives were in danger, and thus stayed inside family quarters.
The press release alleged that ties between Noriega and Seineldin's rebellion indicate "an attitude of vengeance" because Alfonsin favored excluding Panama from the Group of Eight.
They said he was seeking vengeance for the killings of Palestinians.
U.S. private-placement financings fell with a vengeance in 1990, plunging 27% to $120.6 billion from $165 billion a year earlier, according to IDD Information Services.
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan rejected a grand jury's conclusion that a black teen-ager fabricated her story about being raped by six white men and has vowed vengeance.
But while they spare no insult for the author they accuse of blasphemy, many in the city's narrow East End streets don't seek vengeance and reject Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's order to execute him.
This ugly little creature is harsh yet romantic; when his various masters fail to live up to his expectations, he turns on them with a cruel vengeance.
"The mood in Congress now is against Wall Street with a vengeance," laments Thomas Quinn, a Washington attorney who represents the Securities Industry Association, a trade group.
Iran's vows of vengeance against the United States had little effect Tuesday on the oil markets, and experts said they saw little chance that heightened hostilities in the gulf would constrict shipping or inflate crude prices.
"I am totally shocked," said Parker. "The unfairness of it all makes me furious." Others said they had thought Matterson might one day seek vengeance against those he held responsible for his dismissal.
"They seem to have shaken off their lethargy on the lending side with a vengeance."
Ann-Margret co-stars, with a corseted vengeance.
The ayatollah's move showed he can still use his authority to solve disputes, but his actions don't end divisions that experts believe could renew with a vengeance after his death.
In an exchange that required several attempts at clarification, the prince said that if Saddam Hussein had been at all concerned about vengeance he should have moved on the West Bank nine years ago when Israel bombed an Iraqi nuclear plant.
Businesses swallowed each other up with a vengeance, regardless of size; and those that tried to resist were forced to make drastic structural changes.
Many of the angry Senegalese headed to the fairgrounds in search of vengeance.

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