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

• And I wiII do penance for it for the rest of my life.
  我要用我的余生忏悔。
• We must do penance for our sins.
  我们必须苦修赎罪。
• For me, it's more penance than a passion.
  对我来说，这痛苦的成份多于热情。
• 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。
• They had confessed their sins and done their penance.
  他们已经告罪并做了补赎。
• He performed severe penance for many years to gain enough power to become the king of the three worlds.
  他苦行多年，获得了足够的功力而成为了三界的国王。
• 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。
• 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。
• The king of the gods had to perform penance to atone for his transgression.
  众神之王不得不以苦行来为自己的过错赎罪。
• If you really did penance you wouldn't have to.
  如果你真的付钱赎罪可能就不用走了。