| 词组 | reprisal |
| 释义 | reprisal Bernstein 1965 notes that reprisal "takes preposition for (an act); against or upon (the perpetrator)," but actual usage is less clear-cut. The most common preposition following reprisal seems to be against, and while it is true that a reprisal is usually against a "perpetrator," we also have evidence for its occasional use when an "act" is involved: • The seizure may have been a reprisal against the action of the Privy Council in London —Theodore Hsi-en Chen, Current History, November 1952 • In "All Quiet" waggish reprisals against non-coms were still possible —Frederic Morton, Saturday Rev., 22 May 1954 • ... any terrorist act by any Arab or Jew can properly be the occasion for a reprisal against any Jew or Arab —Noam Chomsky, Columbia Forum, Winter 1969 • ... I think we can say that Bech, at least in part, represents a reprisal, and a healthy one, against the literary establishment —L. E. Sissman, Atlantic, August 1970 Upon seems to occur with reprisal very seldom now, but on does have some use. It occurs in the same contexts as against, but less frequently: • ... lest Mr. Raycie's mysterious faculty of hearing what was said behind his back should bring sudden reprisals on the venerable lady —Edith Wharton, False Dawn, 1924 • ... had considered it a peculiarly unfortunate feature of Jackson's proposal for reprisal on French shipping —Francis D. Wormuth, "The Vietnam War: The President versus the Constitution," 1968 Reprisal is also used with for in the way noted by Bernstein: • ... in reprisal for maltreatment of an American naval lieutenant —Francis D. Wormuth, "The Vietnam War: The President versus the Constitution," 1968 And we also have one example of reprisal used with to: • ... U.S. goods are spontaneously boycotted by the population in reprisal to our increase of duties —S. J. Rundt, Wall Street Jour., 2 Sept. 1954 |
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