retaliate
verb🔊/rɪˈtælieɪt/
🔊/rɪˈtælieɪt/
[intransitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they retaliate | 🔊/rɪˈtælieɪt/ 🔊/rɪˈtælieɪt/ |
| he / she / it retaliates | 🔊/rɪˈtælieɪts/ 🔊/rɪˈtælieɪts/ |
| past simple retaliated | 🔊/rɪˈtælieɪtɪd/ 🔊/rɪˈtælieɪtɪd/ |
| past participle retaliated | 🔊/rɪˈtælieɪtɪd/ 🔊/rɪˈtælieɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form retaliating | 🔊/rɪˈtælieɪtɪŋ/ 🔊/rɪˈtælieɪtɪŋ/ |
to do something harmful to somebody because they have harmed you first 报复；反击；复仇 - retaliate (against somebody/something)
to retaliate against an attack 对攻击进行还击 - retaliate (by doing something/with something)
The boy hit his sister, who retaliated by kicking him. 男孩打了他妹妹，妹妹则回敬了他一脚。 🔊🔊
Extra ExamplesThe police were pelted with stones and retaliated with tear gas. 警方遭到石块攻击，以催泪瓦斯还击。 Ukraine threatened to retaliate by closing oil pipelines. 乌克兰威胁要关闭石油管道以进行报复。 The demonstrators retaliated by throwing stones and bricks. 示威者通过扔石头和砖头进行了报复。 The police retaliated with tear gas. 警察用催泪弹报复。 They threatened to retaliate against the British. 他们威胁要对英军进行报复。
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Latin retaliat- ‘returned in kind’, from the verb retaliare, from re- ‘back’ + talis ‘such’.- retaliate (against somebody/something)