"Revenge" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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报复 bào fù to make reprisals / to retaliate / revenge / retaliation
报 bào to announce / to inform / report / newspaper / recompense / revenge / CL:份[fen4],張|张[zhang1]
报仇 bào chóu to take revenge / to avenge
算帐 suàn zhàng to reckon (accounting) / to balance an account / fig. to settle an account / to get one's revenge
算账 suàn zhàng (accounting) to balance the books / to do the accounts / (fig.) to settle an account / to get one's revenge
卧薪尝胆 wò xīn cháng dǎn lit. to lie on firewood and taste gall (idiom) / fig. suffering patiently, but firmly resolved on revenge
仇怨 chóu yuàn hatred and desire for revenge
报仇雪恨 bào chóu xuě hèn to take revenge and wipe out a grudge (idiom)
雪耻 xuě chǐ to take revenge for a past insult / to expunge a disgrace or humiliation
报怨 bào yuàn to pay back a score / to get revenge / to requite / (old) variant of 抱怨[bao4 yuan4]
报仇雪耻 bào chóu xuě chǐ to take revenge and erase humiliation (idiom)
官报私仇 guān bào sī chóu to take advantage of official post for personal revenge (idiom)
食肉寝皮 shí ròu qǐn pí to eat sb's flesh and sleep on their hide (idiom) / to swear revenge on sb / implacable hatred / to have sb's guts for garters
以其人之道，还治其人之身 yǐ qí rén zhī dào , huán zhì qí rén zhī shēn to use an opponent's own methods to obtain retribution (idiom, from Song dynasty neo-Confucianist Zhu Xi 朱熹[Zhu1 Xi1]) / to get revenge by playing sb back at his own game / to give sb a taste of his own medicine
秋后算帐 qiū hòu suàn zhàng lit. settle accounts after the autumn harvest (idiom) / to wait until the time is ripe to settle accounts / to bide one's time for revenge
复仇杀人  revenge killing
出口气 chū kǒu qì to take one's revenge / to score off sb
冤冤相报何时了 yuān yuān xiāng bào hé shí liǎo if revenge breeds revenge, will there ever be an end to it? (Buddhist saying)
不蒸馒头争口气 bù zhēng mán tou zhēng kǒu qì not to be crushed (idiom) / to be determined to have one's revenge
君子报仇，十年不晚 jūn zi bào chóu , shí nián bù wǎn lit. for a nobleman to take revenge, ten years is not too long (idiom) / fig. revenge is a dish best served cold
睚眦必报 yá zì bì bào lit. to seek revenge over a dirty look (idiom) / fig. small-minded / vindictive
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