Punishment
['pʌnɪʃm(ə)nt] or ['pʌnɪʃmənt]
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of punishing.
(n.) Any pain, suffering, or loss inflicted on a person because of a crime or offense.
(n.) A penalty inflicted by a court of justice on a convicted offender as a just retribution, and incidentally for the purposes of reformation and prevention.
戈登編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Chastisement, correction, discipline, penalty.
汉克整理
例句/造句/用法:
- He accepted his punishment with the toughest stoicism. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Forgive my offence, for it carries its punishment with it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- His punishment had impressed him with no sense of shame, and he did not experience that feeling on encountering his chastiser. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Where the punishment is excessive, it is frequently necessary to prefer impunity. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- If you err wilfully, I shall devise a proportionate punishment. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Because of our mobility and because we did not have to stay afterwards to take the punishment we never knew how anything really ended, he thought. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- We are working at capital punishment. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- What a miserable little poltroon had fear, engendered of unjust punishment, made of me in those days! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- The punishment seemed to me in a high degree ignominious, especially for so great a girl--she looked thirteen or upwards. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- The commandant said the punishment would be heavy; when asked how heavy? 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Is not all punishment inflicted beyond the merit of the offence, so much punishment of innocence? 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Damages, gentlemen--heavy damages is the only punishment with which you can visit him; the only recompense you can award to my client. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- He knew there would be people clamoring for the punishment of the ex-Confederate president, for high treason. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- He has repented it in sackcloth and ashes, Robert Moore, as you may well believe when you see his punishment (here she pointed to her children). 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- But while I endured punishment and pain in their defence with the spirit of an hero, I claimed as my reward their praise and obedience. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The Frenchman is for proportioning punishments to offences. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- He doesn't care much about the philanthropic side of things; punishments, and that kind of thing. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- He despises me, I thought; but he shall learn that I despise him, and hold in equal contempt his punishments and his clemency. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- In the past it has been an armory of platitudes or a forecast of punishments. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
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