vengeance的词典解释

1. 报仇
2. 复仇
3. 报复
4. 惩罚
5. 复仇的心
6. 复仇的愿望

1. the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life;

   "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord"
   "For vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge"
   "he swore vengeance on the man who betrayed him"
   "the swiftness of divine retribution"
   

1.复仇;报复;报仇
Vengeance is the act of killing, injuring, or harming someone because they have harmed you.

vengeance

e.g. He sworevengeance on everyone involved in the murder...
他发誓要报复每一个参与了这起谋杀的人。
e.g. She cried aloud to the gods forvengeance for the loss of her daughter.
她大声向神灵起誓，要为死去的女儿报仇。

2.过度地;猛烈地;激烈地
If you say that something happenswith a vengeance, you are emphasizing that it happens to a much greater extent than was expected.

e.g. It began to rain again with avengeance...
又开始下起了大雨。
e.g. Once Gretchen had left the office, her doubts would return with avengeance.
格蕾琴只要一离开办公室，她又会疑窦丛生。

• with a vengeance猛烈地
• Heaven's vengeance is slow but sure.天网恢恢疏而不漏。...
• take vengeance on someone向某人报复
• inflict vengeance on someone向某人报复

• If you Should have ta'en vengeance on my faults, I never Had liv'd.

  出自：Cymbeline,Shakespeare

• They swore vengeance and began to prepare for war.

  出自：K. Crossley