go unpunishedif someone or something bad they have done goes unpunished, they are not punished 不受惩罚
An attack like that cannot go unpunished.
像那样的袭击行为不能让它逃脱惩罚。
Examples from the Corpus
go unpunished• Of course, when it comes to oligarchies and bureaucracies, no good deedgoes unpunished.• Your pride won't go unpunished.• Guards involved in drug deals went unpunished.• Hatecrimes will not be tolerated and will not go unpunished.• At this point in development, children typically believe that a lie is wrong even if it goes unpunished.• In Port-au-Prince there are fears that Dominique's murder, like the deaths of so many others, will go unpunished.• It looked a harshdecision, especially when the referee allowed late tackles to go unpunished.• Middlesex have twice had to carpet Ramprakash this season after astonishingflare-ups and another incidentwent unpunished.• Numerousviolations of constitutional rights went unpunished during the thirties.• Before 1870, a husband could legally go unpunished for beating his wife.• But no good deed goes unpunished in noire crime stories.