Retaliation

(noun.) action taken in return for an injury or offense.

贺拉斯校对

• What strength had I to dart retaliation at my antagonist? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Now, with a start of inner wonder, Lily felt that her thirst for retaliation had died out. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• However well deserved this piece of retaliation might have been, it was as vindictive a one as could well have been resorted to. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Her retaliation was the most singular I could have imagined. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• But her reminder that they were in his wife's carriage provoked him to an impulse of retaliation. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Feeling indignant that he was not taken into his tutor's confidence, he set his wits to work to devise some proper retaliation for the slight. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• The girl's flight enraged Fulbert, and he longed for vengeance, but feared to strike lest retaliation visit Heloise--for he still loved her tenderly. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The savage's bow, his hatchet, and his coat of skins, were sufficiently secured, without law, by the fear of personal resentment and retaliation. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.

校对:奥菲莉娅