The bombing was in revenge for the assassination.

爆炸事件是对暗杀行为的报复。

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The village was bombed in revenge for protecting enemy soldiers.

这座村庄因掩护敌人士兵而遭到报复性轰炸。

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She could have been cruel in revenge for the harm she had experienced.

她本来可能因为她所经历的伤害而进行残酷的报复。

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He said attacks will continue as revenge for the deaths of Somalis killed by African Union peacekeepers in Mogadishu.

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And, in a similar point, he maintains that punishment can never be used as an instrument of revenge but only for what he calls the correction or what we would call the rehabilitation of the offender.

同时他还认为,法律上的惩罚是不能作为复仇的工具,而当作为纠正罪犯过错的工具,即我们今天叫的,对罪犯进行改造。

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In the recorded message, bin Laden vows revenge for the crackdown on militants in Pakistan, and threatens violence on the American people.

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Many people believe police in Port Said stood by in revenge for the fans' role in anti-Mubarak unrest.

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Two years later, to the very day, a bomb planted in revenge for Waco in Oklahoma City killed 169 people.

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The prosecution said Ms Pryce passed the story about his speeding offence to the press in revenge for his extra-marital affair.

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