报复 (報復)
bào fù
Pinyin
Definition
报复 (報復)
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- to make reprisals
- to retaliate
- revenge
- retaliation
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to restore
- 2 to renovate
- 3 restoration
- 4 (computing) to fix (a bug)
- 1 (in) return
- 2 reciprocation
- 3 payback
- 4 retaliation
- 5 to report back
- 6 to reciprocate
- 1 to reply
- 2 to recover
- 3 to return (to a previous condition)
- 4 Re: in reply to (email)
Idioms (20)
一元复始
- 1 a new year begins (idiom)
以德报怨
- 1 to return good for evil (idiom)
- 2 to requite evil with good
以直报怨,以德报德
- 1 to repay kindness with kindness, and repay enmity with justice (idiom, from Analects)
以身报国
- 1 to give one's body for the nation (idiom); to spend one's whole life in the service of the country
克己复礼
- 1 restrain yourself and return to the rites (idiom, from Analects); to subdue self and observe proprieties
- 2 (any number of possible translations)
Sample Sentences
你听我说完,我叫住你,是因为见你印堂发黑,快要遭遇横祸,我估计你最近因为感情问题而会有大祸,是对方有暴力问题,还是你把人家告上法庭,引来报复?
Let me finish. I called you over because I saw that your glabella was lacking luster, which indicates that you'll soon meet with an unexpected calamity. I predict that you'll meet with a big disaster in your love life, likely a violent partner, or that you'll take someone to court and that they'll take revenge against you?
第二天,巨人们起床了。小裁缝也起床了,还跟巨人们打招呼。巨人们以为小裁缝要报复他们,个个吓得屁滚尿流,赶紧跑了。小裁缝呢,继续往前走,去闯世界。
The next day, the giant wakes up. The little tailor also wakes up and says hello to the giants. The giants all think that the little tailor wants to take revenge against them. They are all scared out of their wits and quickly run away. As for the little tailor, he continues forward, off to wander the world.
我们不能用这种报复的观念去看问题。所有的生命都是宝贵的,死刑违反人道主义原则。
We can't look at this problem using that kind of a concept of retaliation. All life is precious--the death penalty violates the principles of humanitarianism.