Word · Frequency #25278
Fully loadedpayback
报复；复仇
An act of revenge or retaliation.
- 1.
An act of revenge.
报复行为
- 2.
financial return or reward (especially returns equal to the initial investment)
财务回报或奖励(尤其等于初始投资的回报)
- 3.
A benefit, reward, a form of recompense.
好处、报答或补偿
- 4.
the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life; --Romans 12:19; --James Garfield
复仇行为(对他人所做的有害行为进行报复)特别是在来世
- 5.
A return on investment.
投资回报
投资回报；收益；报答；回报；补偿；报复行为；财务回报或奖励(尤其等于初始投资的回报)；好处、报答或补偿
In use
After months of bullying, the student finally got his payback by winning the school debate.
They considered the lawsuit pure payback for the company's broken promise.
She described the practical joke as harmless payback for the trick he had played on her.
get payback (for sth)
get payback 为非正式用语，表示“进行报复”。
She got payback for the insult.
她为那次侮辱报了仇。
be payback for sth
be payback for 用于说明某事是对另一件事的报复或报应。
This is payback for what you did.
这是对你所作所为的报复。
payback on sth
在金融语境中，payback on 常指投资所得的回报。
Connections
Collocations
- payback period
- 回收期；投资回收期
- The payback period for the new equipment is about three years.新设备的回收期大约为三年。
- payback time
- 报应的时候；清算的时候
- After years of lying, it's payback time.撒了这么多年谎，现在是报应的时候了。
- sweet payback
- 痛快的报复；快意的复仇
- Beating their top team was sweet payback for our earlier defeat.击败他们的顶尖队伍是我们对早先失利的痛快报复。
- get payback
- 报复；报仇
- She got payback by embarrassing him in front of everyone.她当众让他出丑，以此进行报复。
- as payback for
- 作为对……的报复
- He sent her a terrible gift as payback for her prank.他送了她一件糟糕的礼物，作为对她恶作剧的报复。
Idioms & figurative uses
Learner notes
Memory Tip
联想 pay back 字面“付回”：还钱是回报，把伤害还回去则是报复。
Context & Register
语域：mixed 常见场景：日常对话/影视剧情、商业/金融讨论 payback 作名词时，语体随含义变化：指“报复、报应”时多用于口语或非正式叙述；指“投资回报、收益”时常见于商业、金融语境，较为中性正式。请根据搭配和场景选择合适用法。
Pronunciation & Spelling
These words all share the final /-æk/ sound of payback's second syllable /bæk/, so they rhyme with 'payback' (/ˈpeɪˌbæk/). Watch out for lookalikes such as 'payment' (/ˈpeɪmənt/), 'daybreak' (/ˈdeɪbreɪk/), and 'backpack' (/ˈbæk.pæk/): they begin like 'payback' or contain 'back', but they do not rhyme with the '-back' ending.
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Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.