punishment that is considered to be morally right and fully deserved
应得的惩罚;报应
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settlers drove the Navajo out of Arizona in retribution for their raids .殖民者把纳瓦霍人赶出亚利桑那州,以报复他们的袭击。
"late Middle English (also in the sense ‘recompense for merit or a service’): from late Latin