poetic justice

短语

诗的公正, 诗的报应

发音

UK /pəʊˌɛtɪk ˈd͡ʒʌstɪs/
其它
US /poʊˌɛtɪk ˈd͡ʒʌstɪs/
US /-ɾɪk-/

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Synonym of poetical justice (“the idea that in a literary work such as a poem, virtue should be rewarded and vice punished”).

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  2. 2.

    The fact of someone experiencing what they deserve for their actions, especially when this happens in an ironic manner.

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词汇关系

名词

同义词 3

comeupance comeuppance just deserts

上位词 2

consequence aftermath

词源

From poetic + justice, a variant of poetical justice, coined by the English literary critic Thomas Rymer (c. 1643 – 1713) in the work The Tragedies of the Last Age Consider’d and Examin’d (1678): see the quotation.

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