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Comeuppance is the trouble that finally catches you when you have been , dishonest, or too proud — and other people feel you had it coming. It is what you deserve, not bad luck that could have happened to anyone. People say someone “got their comeuppance.” It has a story-book flavour: a little old-fashioned, more at home in talk and colourful writing than in a law court. Though actually, it started as a law idea: come up once meant to appear in front of a judge. The feeling underneath is the same: you cannot run forever; the bill comes.
報應；活該的下場。
組成From come up (“to appear before a judge”) + -ance (the ending that turns a verb idea into a noun).
同家族的字
- come upthe two-word verb this is built from — here, to appear, especially before a judge
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
comeuppancenoun/kʌmˈʌpəns/
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Retribution or outcome that is justly deserved.
- So when Brown's second wife turned out a reg'lar ternygrunt, I wa'n't in no wise upset, for he needed a comeuppance, an' he got it in her.
- The Sunday edition of the principal morning paper even expressed some bitterness under the heading, "Gilded Youths of the Fin-de-Siecle"--this was considered the knowing phrase of the time, especially for Sunday supplements--and there is no doubt that from certain references in this bit of writing some people drew the conclusion that Mr. George Amberson Minafer had not yet got his comeuppance, a postponement still irritating.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。