poetic justice

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• 英式音标 [pəʊˌet.ɪk ˈdʒʌs.tɪs]
• 美式音标 [poʊˌet̬.ɪk ˈdʒʌs.tɪs]
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基本解释

• 报应，应得的惩罚。

同根派生

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英汉例句

用作名词 (n.)

• He pushed several other runners to get to the front so it was poetic justice when he tripped and fell.
  他把另外几名跑垒者推上场而自己却绊倒了，因此这对他来说是一种理想的赏罚。
• Justice was meted out to them.
  他们受到了公平的赏罚。

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剑桥英英字典

• an occasion when something bad happens to a person who seems to deserve it, usually because of bad things that person has done

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