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tit for tattItadj [not gradable](of an action) done intentionally as a punishment as a reaction to something unpleasant done to you以牙还牙，针锋相对I noticed she didn't send me a card -- I think it was tit for tat because I forgot her birthday last year.我发现她没有给我寄卡----我认为这是报复，因为去年我忘了她的生日。Recent months have seen a pattern of tit-for-tat killings between the two sides.近几个月双方已经历了以牙还牙式的屠杀。(disapproving) The government shouldn't resort to this sort of tit-for-tat reprisal as if they were silly children in a playground.政府不应该采取以牙还牙式的报复，仿佛他们是在操场上玩的蠢孩子。
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