poetic justice

poetic justice

美 　英

• n.报应；应得的惩罚
• 网络微笑正义；写诗的贾斯廷斯；诗意的公正

英汉双解

英汉解释

na.	1. (只有在小说,诗歌中才能见到而在现实生活中却很难遇到的)理想的赏罚严明

英英解释

n.	1. a situation in which someone gets exactly what they deserve when they have done something bad

例句

For Simpson, though, seeing her hot tower hypothesis verified over the next two decades was surely a kind of poetic justice as well.

然而，对于辛普森来讲，由于她的热塔理论在随后的二十多年中被验证，肯定是一种应得的奖赏。

One of the king's ideas was a public arena as an agent of poetic justice.

国王有一个想法就是建立公共竞技场，作为理想的审判场所。

That the oldest technology of flight will find a role supporting the latest, fusion propulsion, has a certain poetic justice.

这个最古老的飞行技术将会找到一个角色支持最新的，聚变推进，具有一个最理想的搭配。

With poetic justice, the crisis recoiled against Paris and destroyed the franc.

老天有眼，这场危机反倒使巴黎和法郎受害颇深。

But poetic justice is not real justice.

但是理想的惩罚并非真正的公正。

he pushed several other runners to get to the front so it was poetic justice when he tripped and fell

他把另外几名跑垒者推上场而自己却绊倒了，因此这对他来说是一种理想的赏罚。

On Different Fortunes of Poetic Justice in Chinese and Western Tragedies

善恶报应在中西悲剧中的不同命运