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

• a Catholic sacrament
• voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing
  Synonym:self-mortificationself-abasement
• remorse for your past conduct
  Synonym:repentancepenitence

双语例句

• Of penance, I have had enough!
  忏悔嘛，我已经做得够多的了！
• It is my firm resolve that if I cannot find a shady shelter and a companion for my penance, I shall never turn ascetic.
  这是我坚定的决心，如果我找不到一个荫凉的住处和一个忏悔的伴侣，我将永远不会变成一个苦行者。
• You catch murderers to pay off your penance.
  你抓凶手就是为了赎自己的罪。
• Formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance.
  在忏悔仪式上牧师所布道的拯救行为。
• 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。
• There is a period of penance, fasting, self-denial, and repentance.
  有一个赎罪、斋戒、自制与忏悔的阶段。
• Jogging becomes a sort of penance for our sins of gluttony, greed, and waste.
  慢跑成了我们对自己的暴殄，贪婪，以及浪费的赎罪。
• 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。
• He believed the death of his child was penance for his sins.
  他认为孩子的死是对他罪过的惩罚。
• We must do penance for our sins.
  我们必须苦修赎罪。