核心词议：
n. 惩罚
punishment 基本解释
n. 刑罚，惩罚；严厉对待；<口>给吃苦头
速记方法
速记技巧 谐音记忆法 派你洗门。派你洗门是在“惩罚”你。 词源词缀法 pun（-pen-）惩罚+-ish动词词尾+-ment名词词尾
知识扩展
词语辨析
punishment,penalty
这组词都有“惩罚、处罚”的意思，其区别是:
punishment泛指各种惩罚，诸如法律、父母、老师以及神的惩罚等。
penalty一般指法律上的惩罚或体育运动比赛中的处罚。
重要短语
capital punishment死刑
severe punishment严厉惩罚；从重处罚
rewards and punishment奖惩
corporal punishment体罚；肉刑
punishment 记忆方法
punishment相关的词根或词缀是:
penpun
punishment惩罚n.
punish 惩罚 + ment 表结果 → 惩罚
中文词源： punishment
精选例句
1、 Using them wrongly results in punishment.
错误地使用它们会导致惩罚。[机器翻译，如有错误，感谢纠错]
2、 We conform just in order to avoid punishments or gain rewards.
我们从众只是为了避免惩罚或获得奖励。
1、 This can result in severe penalties that continue long after punishment is completed.
这可能导致严厉的惩罚，在惩罚结束后很长时间仍在继续。
1、 The myth also reminds us that these advances have come at a price: as a punishment for Prometheus’ crime, the gods created Pandora, and they gave her a box filled with evils and curses.
这个神话也提醒我们，这些进步是有代价的:作为对普罗米修斯罪行的惩罚，众神创造了潘多拉，并给了她一个装满邪恶和诅咒的盒子。
1、 “We estimate that either eliminating a substantial labour-rights concern, such as child labour, or increasing corporate giving by about 20% results in fines that generally are 40% lower than the typical punishment for bribing foreign officials,” says one researcher.
一位研究人员说:“我们估计，无论是消除一个实质性的劳工权利问题，如童工，还是增加20%的企业捐赠，都会导致罚款比贿赂外国官员的典型惩罚低40%。”
常见考点例句：
- As long as businesses have reasonable security measures , they can avoid punishment after even serious breaches .
- 就算黑客袭击造成了非常严重的后果，但只要这些公司采取了合理的安全措施，就能躲过惩罚。
- It was never intended as a punishment .
- 这从来没有被看做是一种惩罚。
- The punishment for murder was death .
- 谋杀的处罚乃是死刑。
- Fortunately , the hound escaped before the horrific punishment could be delivered .
- 幸运的是，它在可怕的刑罚实施之前跑掉了。
- They also know that they will face no serious economic punishment .
- 他们还知道，他们不会面临严重的经济制裁。
