retaliative

[ri'tæliətiv]

adj. 报复性的

a.

报复性的

retaliative

retaliative[ri'tælieitiv]adj.1.■= retaliatory

retaliative

retaliative

■the female images in the household, the forbearing women and the retaliative with contorted personality, and revealment of persecution made by society with patriarchal clan system;

家族中女性有逆来顺受的贤妻良母和心理扭曲的报复者,揭示了宗法社会对她们的戕害;

■this time resolved, if his door was broken in (he was a small Southern man of retaliative temperament), to pitch himself head foremost over the parapet, and crush a man or two below.

这回他下定了决心，若是门被闯开，他便从雉堞顶上栽下去抓住一两个人同归于尽（他是个南方人，个子虽小，复仇心却很重）。