penance

英 ['penəns] 美 ['penəns]

• n. 自我惩罚；忏悔；赎罪
• v. 使忏悔

详尽释义

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

例句

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。

经典引文

• 'And now for your penance' the priest said. 'Say the litany of the Saints.'

  出自： P. Kavanagh

• I offered up prayers at Benediction in penance for shouting at you.

  出自： B. Moore

近反义词

【近义词】

• penitence 忏悔
• punishment 惩罚
• apology 道歉
• repentance 后悔
• self-punishment 自罚
• reparation 补偿
• forfeit 没收物
• atonement 赎罪
• amends 赔偿
• propitiation 安抚
• contrition 悔罪
• self-abasement 自卑
• self-mortification 自我禁欲