poetic justice
音標發(fā)音
- 英式音標 [p???et.?k ?d??s.t?s]
- 美式音標 [po??et?.?k ?d??s.t?s]
- 英式發(fā)音
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基本解釋
- 報應，應得的懲罸。
英漢例句
- He pushed several other runners to get to the front so it was poetic justice when he tripped and fell.
他把另外幾名跑壘者推上場而自己卻絆倒了，因此這對他來說是一種理想的賞罸。 - Justice was meted out to them.
他們受到了公平的賞罸。
用作名詞 (n.)
英英字典
- an occasion when something bad happens to a person who seems to deserve it, usually because of bad things that person has done