单词 | to take revenge |
释义 | > as lemmasto take (one's) revenge P2. to take (one's) revenge: to obtain repayment or retaliation for an injury or wrong sustained; to exact vengeance (on a person). ΚΠ 1611 Bible (King James) Jer. xx. 10 We shall preuaile against him, and we shall take our reuenge on him. View more context for this quotation 1654 E. Wolley tr. ‘G. de Scudéry’ Curia Politiæ 52 To take revenge on a feeble, wounded, dying Penitentiarie, weeping, and bleeding for his crimes. 1721 G. Jacob Treat. Laws i. 116 A Defence ought to be unblameable, not to take Revenge, but to Repulse the Injury. 1797 Ld. Nelson in A. Duncan Life (1806) 44 The Spaniards threaten us they will come out and take their revenge. 1825 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1971) V. 497 Nature..is sure to get the better of Lady Mind in the long run, and to take her revenge too. 1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud iii, in Maud & Other Poems 12 Taking revenge too deep for a transient wrong. 1955 D. Eden Darling Clementine (1959) 164 It was like feeding a hungry monster who, if he were to remain unfed, would take revenge by devouring oneself. 1995 Observer 19 Nov. 6/4 The edible dormouse, the Roman legionary's equivalent of a Big Mac, is taking its revenge. < as lemmas |
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