Retribution

(noun.) the act of correcting for your wrongdoing.

(noun.) a justly deserved penalty.

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• They call this _retribution_. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• The sentence of the court is passed, but the day of retribution has not been set. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• However, retribution came to them afterward. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Excess had brought on that frightful disease that seems to throw the lurid shadows of a coming retribution back into the present life. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• And if he turned to God there seemed to be no answer but the pressure of retribution. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• How extravagant soever the fees of counsellors at law may sometimes appear, their real retribution is never equal to this. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• They may, notwithstanding, solace themselves with my assurance that a day of retribution will come, and may be nearer than many of them anticipate. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Thus we combine business with retribution, and all things are lovely. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• She realized the stern retribution which justice metes to the murderer. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• It would be a stern and awful retribution, Phaidor; but a just one. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Is it not a just retribution? 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Taxes upon luxuries are finally paid by the consumers of the commodities taxed, without any retribution. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• How awfully, at the last moment, had the working of the retribution THERE been snatched from my feeble hands! 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• In the description of the meadow, and the retribution of the good and evil after death, there are traces of Homer. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Of piety and impiety to gods and parents, and of murderers, there were retributions other and greater far which he described. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• These, said Er, were the penalties and retributions, and there were blessings as great. 柏拉图. 理想国.

校对:梅勒妮