1.avenge和revenge都可用于为自己所受的伤害而报仇, avenge还可指为别人所受的伤害而报仇。
2.revenge多出于利己的动机,而非出于利他的动机; avenge多出于正义的动机,是高尚的用语。
3.avenge强调“惩罚”,而revenge强调“报复”“出气”,惩罚意义较淡。
4.avenge只可用作动词,而revenge却可用作动词或名词。
I will avenge you and follow you down to the house of death
我会为你复仇,然后跟你到地府去I will avenge you, and then follow you to the nether world.
我也会为你报仇,然后追随你到冥府。Remember me and visit me, And avenge me of my persecutors.
求你记念我,眷顾我,向逼迫我的人为我报仇。They were burning to avenge the death of their squad leader.
他们迫切想给班长报仇。He is propelled by both guilt and the need to avenge his father.
他受到内疚感和为父报仇之心的双重驱使。
6、To take revenge on, especially to kill in revenge for a wrong
报复实行报复,尤指为报复一个错误而刺杀
7、There was anger in his eyes and revenge in his heart.
他两眼闪现怒火, 一心只想复仇。
8、The crime had revenge stamped all over it.
从各方面看这次犯罪都是复仇行为。
9、And Medea, too, gets her revenge on him.
而且密提阿也在这里报了仇。
10、The Revenge of Gaia: Earth’s Climate Crisis and the Fate of Humanity
大地女神的复仇:地球气候危机及人类的命运 作者:詹姆斯?拉夫洛克(James Lovelock)