| 单词 | revenge plot |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrevenge plot revenge plot n. (a) a scheme or conspiracy to avenge an injury or wrong; (b) a storyline in a literary or dramatic work dealing with the pursuit of vengeance. ΚΠ 1888 Marshfield (Wisconsin) Times 27 July 2/8 (heading) The revenge plot said to have been formulated by the New York revolutionist. 1916 R. Brooke J. Webster & Elizabethan Drama iv. 90 Tourneur took the atmosphere, and discarded the revenge-plot, in The Atheist's Tragedy. 1988 Weekly World News 3 May 43/1 A scheming ex-doctor was sent back to prison before he could carry out a bizarre revenge plot. 2007 N. Moschovakis in S. Cohen Shakespeare & Hist. Formalism ii. vi. 148 These allusions..may have enabled some members of Hamlet's early audience to identify the form of its revenge plot conceptually with that of Vergil's epic. < as lemmas |
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