| 释义 |
reprisal/riˈpraiz(ə)l/n. 1 an act of retaliation 报复 2 hist. the forcible seizure of a foreign subject or his or her goods as an act of retaliation [史义] (对别国或别人财物的)报复性掳掠 [Middle English (in sense 2) via Anglo-French reprisaille from medieval Latin reprisalia, from repraehensalia (as REPREHEND)] |