mirror punishment

短语

词形变化

mirror punishments 复数 mirror punishments

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A form of punishment that reflects the nature of the transgression that it punishes.

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    Mirror punishments are often justified by the Biblical phrase 'an eye for an eye'.

    The Sharia (Islamic penal code) rule of amputating a thief's stealing hand is a bloody mirror punishment.

词源

Possibly a calque translation of Dutch spiegelstraf or German Spiegelstrafe

来源：wiktionary