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

• You catch murderers to pay off your penance.
  你抓凶手就是为了赎自己的罪。
• There is no penance hard enough for me.
  我再怎么忏悔也难补偿。
• 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。
• He received an axe after doing penance for Shiva.
  他为湿婆作了忏悔后获得一把斧头。
• 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。
• For me, it's more penance than a passion.
  对我来说，这痛苦的成份多于热情。
• 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。
• 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。
• And this is his penance too, to live without us.
  这也是对他的惩罚，失去我们而生活。
• 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。