penance

英['penəns] 美['penəns]
  • n. 自我惩罚；忏悔；赎罪
  • v. 使忏悔
penanced penanced penancing penances
GRE

详细释义

    n. (名词)
    1. （赎罪的）苦行
    2. 苦修
    3. 【天主教】补赎
    4. 忏悔
    5. 悔过
    6. 苦差事
    7. 被迫做的事
    8. 忏悔式
    9. 忏悔的仪式
    10. 赎罪
    11. 自我惩罚
    12. 补赎礼
    v. (动词)
    1. 使悔过
    2. 使悔罪
    3. 使苦修
    4. 使补赎
    5. 使（某人）苦行赎罪
    6. 处罚

英英释义

Noun:
  1. remorse for your past conduct

  2. a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement and absolution

  3. voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing

双语例句

1. The Koran recommends fasting as a penance before pilgrimages.
《古兰经》劝告人们在朝圣前斋戒，以作为一种补赎。

来自柯林斯例句

2. an act of penance
赎罪善功

来自《权威词典》

3. They had confessed their sins and done their penance.
他们已经告罪并做了补赎.

来自《简明英汉词典》

4. Are you willing to do penance for your sins, my son?
你愿意以苦刑赎你的罪吗, 孩子?

来自《简明英汉词典》

5. She knelt at her mother's feet in penance.
她忏悔地跪在母亲脚下.

来自《简明英汉词典》

    用作名词 (n.)
    1. He had done penance for his sins, we should forgive him.
      他已经为赎罪自我惩罚了，我们应该原谅他。
    2. She regards living in New York as a penance; she hates big cities.
      她把住在纽约视为一件苦事,她讨厌大都市。
    3. There is no absolution without penance.
      没有忏悔就谈不上宽恕。
    4. She knelt at her mother's feet in penance.
      她忏悔地跪在母亲脚下。
    5. Yeah. I'm doing penance for forgetting her birthday last week.
      是啊。我是在为上星期忘了她生日赎罪。

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