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retribution

释义：

retribution

retribution，英语单词，主要用作名词，作名词时译为“报应；惩罚；报答；报偿”。

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英语

词源

源自拉丁语 retribuō (“偿还”)。

发音

名词

retribution（可数 & 不可数，复数 retributions）

  1. （出于道德或报复的）惩罚，惩处
    • 1983, Richard A. Posner, The economics of justicem p.208:
      Whereas retribution focuses on the offender's wrong, retaliation focuses on the impulse of the victim (or of those who sympathize with him) to strike back at the offender.
    • 1999, Barbara Hanawalt, Medieval crime and social control, p.73:
      1. Revenge is for an injury; retribution is for a wrong.
      2. Retribution sets an internal limit to the amount of the punishment according to the seriousness of the wrong; revenge need not.
      3. Revenge is personal; the agent of retribution need have no special or personal tie to the victim of the wrong for which he exacts retribution.
      4. Revenge involves a particular emotional tone, pleasure in the suffering of another, while retribution need involve no emotional tone.

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