deserts
/dɪˈzɜːts/plural noun
- what a person deserves with regard to reward or (more usually) punishment应得的奖赏; 应得的惩罚（或报应）：
the penal system fails to punish offenders in accordance with their deserts.
刑罚制度未能根据犯罪者应得的惩罚来有效惩处他们。
USAGE
If a person gets their just deserts they get what they deserve. Deserts here is related to deserve, and is spelled with one -s- in the middle; a dessert is a sweet course eaten at the end of a meal. The -ss- spelling in the sense 'what a person deserves' is regarded as an error, although in the Oxford English Corpus it is almost as common as the correct spelling.
短语
get（或receive）one's just deserts
- receive what one deserves, especially appropriate punishment得到应有的回报（尤指遭报应或得到应有的惩罚）：
those who caused great torment to others rarely got their just deserts.
给别人造成巨大痛苦的那些人很少得到应有的惩罚。
词源
Middle English: via Old French desert, from deservir 'serve well' （see DESERVE）.