vendetta

音标发音

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.
次级的推测认为利特维年科被杀并非普京直接下令所致，而是现任或前安全人员私人之间的仇杀所致。
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.
穆沙拉夫否认了由巴基斯坦人民党领导的政治联盟即将对他进行的弹劾，指责这是他们针对他的报复行径。
“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.
“它既可以当矛也可以当盾。” 一位外国分析家解释道，同时他还指出，并没有明显的证据能够支持这是一场针对艾丁•道昂的长期斗争的说法。

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.
复仇法，本质上讲述了人应该根据其所造成的伤害,接受处罚的原则，却遭到了谴责，人们认为它是,复仇或仇杀原则原始古老的反映。
耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

She has disrupted the lives of scores of folks for her own personal vendetta.
FORBES: Biggest Tax Fraud Prosecution Ever To Be Retried Due to Juror Who Is "Pathological Liar"
In the end, the Senators were motivated by an ideological vendetta against a superbly qualified man.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Farewell John Bolton
It was simply a business decision and not a personal vendetta against Rick Ferri.
FORBES: Las Vegas "MoneyShow" and Circus

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.