vendetta

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A sub-theory is that Litvinenko died not on Mr Putin's direct order, but through a freelance vendetta pursued by current or former security agents.
次級的推測認為利特維年科被殺并非普京直接下令所致，而是現(xiàn)任或前安全人員私人之間的仇殺所致。
He denied the charges that the ruling coalition, led by the Pakistan People’s Party, was about to impeach him with, accusing it of pursuing a “vendetta” against him.
穆沙拉夫否認了由巴基斯坦人民黨領導的政治聯(lián)盟即將對他進行的彈劾，指責這是他們針對他的報復行徑。
“They can be used as a spear or a shield, ” says a foreign analyst, who says there is insufficient evidence to back the claims of a vendetta against Mr Dogan.
“它既可以當矛也可以當盾。” 一位外國分析家解釋道，同時他還指出，并沒有明顯的證據能夠支持這是一場針對艾丁?道昂的長期斗爭的說法。

The law of talion, which is essentially the principle that a person should be punished according to the injury they inflicted, it's been decried as a primitive, archaic reflex of the vengeance or vendetta principle.
復仇法，本質上講述了人應該根據其所造成的傷害,接受處罰的原則，卻遭到了譴責，人們認為它是,復仇或仇殺原則原始古老的反映。
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a long and violent argument between people or families, in which one group tries to harm the other in order to punish them for things that happened in the past

If one person has a vendetta against another, the first person wants revenge for something the second person did to them in the past.