poetical justice

短语

诗的公正, 诗的报应

发音

UK /pəʊˌɛtɪkl̩ ˈd͡ʒʌstɪs/
US /poʊˌɛtɪk(ə)l ˈd͡ʒʌstɪs/
US /-ɾɪk-/

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The idea that in a literary work such as a poem, virtue should be rewarded and vice punished.

    不可数 语言学
  2. 2.

    Synonym of poetic justice (“the fact of someone experiencing what they deserve for their actions, especially when this happens in an ironic manner”).

    不可数 引申义

词源

From 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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