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penance

英 [ˈpenəns]

美 [ˈpenəns]

n.  补赎; 悔罪; 修和圣事; 苦差事; 被迫做的事

复数:penances 

GRE

BNC.15780 / COCA.16731

牛津词典

    noun

    • 补赎;悔罪;修和圣事
      an act that you give yourself to do, or that a priest gives you to do in order to show that you are sorry for sth you have done wrong
      1. an act of penance
        赎罪善功
      2. to do penance for your sins
        为自己的罪过做补赎
    • 苦差事;被迫做的事
      something that you have to do even though you do not like doing it
      1. 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。

    柯林斯词典

    • N-VAR 补赎;悔罪;忏悔
      If you dopenancefor something wrong that you have done, you do something that you find unpleasant to show that you are sorry.
      1. ...a time of fasting, penance and pilgrimage...
        斋戒、补赎和朝圣的时代
      2. 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。

    英英释义

    noun

    双语例句

    • If I have taken a wrong direction would I, like Peter, do the one any only thing that can invert the wrong direction: penance and conversion?
      是否我像伯多禄一样,站了个错误方位,我是否做了那唯一能翻转错误方位的行动,悔改和转变?
    • Priest: Inner Focus will now properly increase the critical strike chance of the talent Penance.
      牧师:心灵专注现在能正确地提高忏悔天赋的暴击率。
    • 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。
    • They had confessed their sins and done their penance.
      他们已经告罪并做了补赎。
    • And I wiII do penance for it for the rest of my life.
      我要用我的余生忏悔。
    • Of penance, I have had enough!
      忏悔嘛,我已经做得够多的了!
    • I mean, you've been banished to the tool shed to do your penance.
      我是说,你都被放逐到工具储藏室来忏悔了。
    • We must do penance for our sins.
      我们必须苦修赎罪。
    • 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。
    • A person who whips himself as a religious penance.
      鞭打自己来作为宗教上的忏悔的人。