an eye for an eye

以眼还眼以牙还牙

an eye for an eye 的定义

  1. The principle of justice that requires punishment equal in kind to the offense. Thus, if someone puts out another's eye, one of the offender's eyes should be put out. The principle is stated in the Book of Exodus as “Thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.”

an eye for an eye 近义词

an eye for an eye

等同于 counteraction

an eye for an eye

等同于 counterattack

an eye for an eye

等同于 counterblow

an eye for an eye

等同于 reciprocation

更多an eye for an eye例句

  1. Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
  2. The numbers reinforce another article in the Post, in which cops confessed to “turning a blind eye” to minor crimes.
  3. There was no mistaking this for the gaudiness and gilt of made-for-TV awards shows.
  4. My younger, straighter-than-an-arrow son was stopped and arrested in two separate jurisdictions a few years ago.
  5. This attack, coming just days after the PlayStation DDoS, was certainly an eye-opener.
  6. But Lucy had noted, out of the corner of her watchful eye, the arrival of Miss Grains, indignant and perspiring.
  7. As his eye became accustomed to the gloom, David Arden saw traces of gilding on the walls.
  8. As small letters weary the eye most, so also the smallest affairs disturb us most.
  9. Ripperda's eye fell upon the mantle,—it was discoloured a dark red in many places, he nodded his head, and the man withdrew.
  10. The noise of the hammer is always in his ears, and his eye is upon the pattern of the vessel he maketh.