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deserts

noun
🔊/dɪˈzɜːts/
🔊/dɪˈzɜːrts/
Word OriginMiddle English: via Old French desert, from deservir ‘serve well’, from Latin deservire ‘serve well or zealously’.
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Idioms
somebody’s (just) deserts
  1. what somebody deserves, especially when it is something bad应得的惩罚；报应
    • The family of the victim said that the killer had got his just deserts when he was jailed for life.受害者家属说杀人犯被判终身监禁是得到了他应有的惩罚。🔊🔊