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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• They are doing penance for their sins.
  他们正在为自己所犯的罪而悔过。
• 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。
• We must do penance for our sins.
  我们必须苦修赎罪。
• As a penance, she said she would buy them all a box of chocolates.
  为表示歉意，她说要给他们每人买一盒巧克力。
• They had confessed their sins and done their penance.
  他们已经告罪并做了补赎。