(noun.) the act of compensating for service or loss or injury.
(noun.) payment or reward (as for service rendered).
校对:卡特里娜
双语例句
They will recompense him now, I hope, as he deserves. 查尔斯·狄更斯.双城记.
Much relieved when the two hours were at last accomplished, he went away at a quick pace, as a recompense for so much loitering. 查尔斯·狄更斯.艰难时事.
The dad raised their wages all round to recompense them for the annoyance. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯回忆录.
You ought to stand something handsome, Fagin, to recompense me for keeping house so long. 查尔斯·狄更斯.雾都孤儿.
Damages, gentlemen--heavy damages is the only punishment with which you can visit him; the only recompense you can award to my client. 查尔斯·狄更斯.匹克威克外传.
And then, dear boy, it was a recompense to me, look'ee here, to know in secret that I was making a gentleman. 查尔斯·狄更斯.远大前程.
There ought, my dear, were it only to prove that this life is a mere state of probation, wherein neither rest nor recompense is to be vouchsafed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
He was happy in the return he had made her, he was recompensed for his suffering, he was proud of his strength. 查尔斯·狄更斯.双城记.
The circumstances of gardeners, generally mean, and always moderate, may satisfy us that their great ingenuity is not commonly over-recompensed. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
In point of pecuniary gain, all things considered, they are generally under-recompensed, as I shall endeavour to shew by and by. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
Guster has some recompenses for her many privations. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.