reprisals

英 [rɪˈpraɪzəlz]

美 [rɪˈpraɪzəlz]

n.  报复; 报复行动
reprisal的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 报复（行为）
  If you do something to a personin reprisal, you hurt or punish them because they have done something violent or unpleasant to you.
  1. There were fears that some of the Western hostages might be killed in reprisal...
     有人担心一些西方人质可能会受到报复性杀害。
  2. Witnesses are unwilling to testify through fear of reprisals.
     由于害怕报复，目击者不愿作证。

双语例句

• No reprisals, however bloody, upon hostages or villages deterred them.
  无论对于人质或村庄采取多么残暴的报复手段，也不能制止他们的活动。
• True justice will not come from reprisals and violence; it will come from reconciliation and a Libya that allows its citizens to determine their own destiny.
  报复和暴力不会带来真正的正义；惟有和解和一个允许由公民决定自己命运的利比亚，才能有真正的正义。
• That my family will not suffer reprisals.
  我的家人不会被牵连进来而遭报复。
• Reprisals followed, notably an apparently temporary tourism boycott of France by China.
  中国发起报复，特别是暂时抵制到法国旅游这点尤其明显。
• If military commanders ignored him and carried out reprisals, he said, he would resign-a threat which gives a glimpse of the tensions within a movement now on the brink of forming a new government.
  他说，如果军事指挥官无视他的存在，进行报复，他将辞职&该威胁导致正处于组建新政府边缘时刻出现了紧张的情绪。
• Nothing can be more melancholy than these reprisals in painting, by a pack of cards, in the presence of stakes for the roasting of smugglers and of the cauldron for the boiling of counterfeiters.
  这上面所画的是对那种烧死走私犯和煮死铸私钱犯的火刑的反击情绪，而竟描绘在一张纸牌上，可以说再没有什么比这更阴森的了。
• Amid rising sectarian tensions in Baghdad, there were many as yet unsubstantiated rumours of reprisals against Sunni Muslims.
  随着巴格达的宗派紧张关系加剧，有关对逊尼派穆斯林展开报复的谣言四起。
• We want to talk to a lawyer, one father, who asked not to be named for fear of reprisals, told the Financial Times.
  一位父亲对英国《金融时报》表示：我们想跟律师谈谈。由于担心报复，他请求记者不要透露他的名字。
• Now wants revenge and urged fans of the film to lead the reprisals.
  罗伯特·帕丁森现在想要以牙还牙，他还希望《暮光之城》的粉丝们也能展开报复打击行动。
• Those who disagreed with him feared reprisals if they spoke out, and those who did were humiliated and derided.
  那些与他意见相悖者担心，如果公开直言会遭到报复，那些真的讲出真话来的人被羞辱和嘲笑。