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retaliation

/ri-tal-ee-ey-shuhn/US // rɪˌtæl iˈeɪ ʃən //

报复,报复行为,反击,报酬

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of retaliating; return of like for like; reprisal.

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Examples

  • Some people I spoke to said Murphy’s whistleblower report is “definitely” meant as retaliation against his superiors for his demotion.

  • China closes the American consulate in Chengdu in retaliation.

  • China is holding two Canadians, former diplomat Michael Kovrig and entrepreneur Michael Spavor, who were arrested on unspecified national security charges in apparent retaliation for Canada’s arrest of Meng.

  • This week, Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced the settlement of a sexual harassment and job retaliation case involving female temporary workers at a southwest suburban beauty supplies factory.

  • Workers must also be protected from any retaliation for alerting management to unsafe situations or working collectively with colleagues to address them.

  • The decision not to run the cartoons is motivated by nothing more than fear: either fear of offending or fear of retaliation.

  • And U.S. lawmakers are pushing to involve China in any retaliation against the Sony hack.

  • Of how incredibly petty the offense can be and how insanely disproportionate the retaliation can be.

  • If this is to be achieved, man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation.

  • What he fails to realize is that he is imposing the same urban title on his family in retaliation.

  • The British, on the score of retaliation put to death 221 prisoners, men, women and children.

  • The measures of retaliation adopted by the colonists were depressing trade at home.

  • The officers hastened below to wash and change their dress after this very annoying retaliation on the part of Captain Oughton.

  • The automatic retaliation discs, spinning down all over Russia, hundreds of thousands of them.

  • It was very true that Those Others might turn on the stranger's fellows in retaliation for his deeds.