pay off old scores; avenge oneself and cancel out one's hatred; get even with a hated enemy; glut one's revenge; have avenged an old wrong and wiped away the old hatred; hurt sb. in return for a wrong; quit scores; take one's revenge and wipe out the hatred from one's heart; take revenge; wreak vengeance and redress hatred -- wipe out a grievance
报仇雪耻 recover the ashes; take revenge for an insult
雪恨 wreak vengeance; avenge 报仇雪恨 take revenge; avenge onself
A rumour just lived in the village - had a faint and bare existence there , as its people had that when the knife struck home , the faces changed , from faces of pride to faces of anger and pain also , that when that dangling figure was hauled up forty fee above the fountain , they changed again , and bore a cruel look of being avenged , which they would henceforth bear for ever 村里流传着一种谣言它的存在跟村里的人一样有气无力说是那把匕首刺进去时所有的石雕人面都改变了表情,从骄傲化作了愤怒和痛苦,而在泉水上空四十英尺晃荡起那个人影之后,石像的表情又起了变化,带上了一种报仇雪恨的残酷。而这种表情将永远保留下去。