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
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- an act of penance
赎罪善功 - to do penance for your sins
为自己的罪过做补赎
- an act of penance
- 苦差事；被迫做的事
something that you have to do even though you do not like doing it- 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。
- She regards living in New York as a penance; she hates big cities.
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.- ...a time of fasting, penance and pilgrimage...
斋戒、补赎和朝圣的时代 - 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。
- ...a time of fasting, penance and pilgrimage...
英英释义
noun
- a Catholic sacrament
- voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing
- remorse for your past conduct
双语例句
- You catch murderers to pay off your penance.
你抓凶手就是为了赎自己的罪。 - He received an axe after doing penance for Shiva.
他为湿婆作了忏悔后获得一把斧头。 - He was sent barefoot wearing only a hair shirt into the wilderness as a penance.
为了赎罪，他跣足褐衣，被流放到了荒野中。 - Searing Light ( Holy): Now also increases the damage of your Holy Nova and Penance spells.
灼热之光（神圣）：现在同样增加神圣新星与苦行的伤害。 - 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。 - History slowly smothers its truth, but hastily struggles to revive it in the terrible penance of pain.
历史缓慢地将真理窒息，但又仓促地在忏悔巨大痛苦中竭力令其复活。 - For me, it's more penance than a passion.
对我来说，这痛苦的成份多于热情。 - 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？ - Myrrh has been associated with bitter repentance, mortification of the flesh, and penance.
没药与痛苦的悔改，苦修，忏悔联合。 - Of penance, I have had enough!
忏悔嘛，我已经做得够多的了！