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单词 revenge plot
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revenge 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.
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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.
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