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单词 revenge
释义
revenge
(rɪvendʒ )
Word forms: revenges , revenging , revenged
1. uncountable noun B2
Revenge involves hurting or punishing someone who has hurt or harmed you.
The prisoners took revenge on their captors, eventually overcoming them. [+ on/against]
The killings were said to have been in revenge for the murder of her lover.
[Also + for]
Synonyms: retaliation, satisfaction, vengeance, reprisal  
2. verb
If you revenge yourself on someone who has hurt you, you hurt them in return. [written]
The Sunday Mercury accused her of trying to revenge herself on her former lover. [V pron-refl + on]
...the relatives of murdered villagers wanting to revenge the dead. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: avenge, repay, vindicate, pay (someone) back  
Quotations:
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth Bible: Exodus
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it outFrancis BaconEssays
Revenge is a dish best served cold
Don't get mad, get even
Revenge is sweet
Collocations:
gain revenge
They are starting to gain revenge now on the prankster and, if his clothes are a bit flash, they end up in the fridge.
Times, Sunday Times
But he was not at home on that track and can gain revenge on 6lb better terms.
The Sun
The website, which also offers to create perfect 'novelty' copies of any documentation necessary to enable the customer to gain revenge, promises its services 'can create mayhem'.
Times, Sunday Times
The next day, he and his warriors returned to gain revenge.
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His original intentions for the program were to gain revenge on a classmate who had fought with him.
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revenge drama
He usually pays a heavy price to even the score; in revenge drama he almost always dies.
The Times Literary Supplement
There's your conflict, romance and revenge drama.
Globe and Mail
The revenge drama was enormously popular, with viewer ratings soaring to 35.7 percent.
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Without a speck of novelty it ends up as a routine revenge drama devoid of thrills.
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Both the dramas are revenge dramas.
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seek revenge
In and of itself, that might well have motivated whoever felt betrayed or offended to seek revenge.
Times, Sunday Times
We should be concerned for ourselves when we seek revenge on the people we promised to love, honor, and cherish.
Christianity Today
You learned to cope rather than seek revenge.
The Sun
The pressure to save face and seek revenge had been strong.
Times,Sunday Times
It was claimed he was scared she would seek revenge if she was charged.
The Sun
sweet revenge
She insists she didn't steal him - he was already divorced - but it must have felt like sweet revenge.
Times, Sunday Times
For him it must have been sweet revenge indeed for 1956, but it was more than agony to watch.
Times, Sunday Times
The bountiful prize-money to the winner of 5,829 will be of less consequence to either side than gaining a little sweet revenge.
Times, Sunday Times
This was a week for sweet revenge.
Times, Sunday Times
It was the captain's second goal of the match and sweet revenge - he had been denied two clear penalties after being wrestled to the ground.
Times, Sunday Times
take revenge
Something in me snapped when I heard Kamal had been arrested and I wanted to take revenge for what he had taken from me.
Val McDermid THE LAST TEMPTATION (2002)
Did those worthies take revenge by engineering the painter's fall into penury?
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
terrible revenge
Experiences like that can spur one to seek terrible revenge.
Times, Sunday Times
Forced to fight for his life he later attempts to exact a terrible revenge on those who abandoned him.
The Sun
Two years later he takes a terrible revenge.
Times, Sunday Times
But all the righteous, justifiable anger breaks down at the question of how we extract our terrible revenge.
Times, Sunday Times
The left-brainers took a terrible revenge: he was knocked out in the first round without a single vote.
Times, Sunday Times
ultimate revenge
No one reading the heart-rending interviews with any of the victims' families could fail to understand their desire for the ultimate revenge.
The Sun
But will the maverick cop take the ultimate revenge on his former friend?
The Sun
His whistleblowing marks the ultimate revenge for the battle bus coordinator - who was livid following his treatment by the party.
The Sun
The 24-year-old sees it as the ultimate revenge - and she has now found love again with someone who shares her passion for exercise.
The Sun
You could argue that her dobbing him in was the ultimate revenge.
The Sun
violent revenge
His initial instinct was to go along to the meeting and take violent revenge.
Times, Sunday Times
He soon betrays his comrades, who think nothing of exacting a violent revenge.
The Sun
He spends his spare time in his room, spying on the adult world through his telescope and acting out violent revenge fantasies in front of the mirror.
Times, Sunday Times
A kind of twisted love story follows, but with violent revenge and stolen cash in place of romance.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 复仇, 报复
Japanese: 復讐, 報復する
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