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

  1. 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
  2. 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

  1. N-VAR 补赎;悔罪;忏悔
    If you do penance for 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。

双语例句

  1. 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。
  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。
  3. Of penance, I have had enough!
    忏悔嘛,我已经做得够多的了!
  4. 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。
  5. 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。
  6. A person who whips himself as a religious penance.
    鞭打自己来作为宗教上的忏悔的人。
  7. And I wiII do penance for it for the rest of my life.
    我要用我的余生忏悔。
  8. 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?
  9. 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。
  10. Myrrh has been associated with bitter repentance, mortification of the flesh, and penance.
    没药与痛苦的悔改,苦修,忏悔联合。
  11. 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。
  12. He received an axe after doing penance for Shiva.
    他为湿婆作了忏悔后获得一把斧头。
  13. 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。
  14. 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。
  15. 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。
  16. 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。
  17. They are doing penance for their sins.
    他们正在为自己所犯的罪而悔过。
  18. For me, it's more penance than a passion.
    对我来说,这痛苦的成份多于热情。
  19. 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。
  20. They had confessed their sins and done their penance.
    他们已经告罪并做了补赎。
  21. 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。
  22. You catch murderers to pay off your penance.
    你抓凶手就是为了赎自己的罪。
  23. There is no penance hard enough for me.
    我再怎么忏悔也难补偿。
  24. We must do penance for our sins.
    我们必须苦修赎罪。
  25. 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。
  26. Acts of sacrifice, charity and penance are not to be given up; they must be performed. Indeed, sacrifice, charity and penance purify even the great souls.
    祭祀、布施和苦行都不应放弃;这些活动都必须执行。实际上,祭祀、布施和苦行甚至可以净化伟大的灵魂。
  27. 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。
  28. Searing Light ( Holy): Now also increases the damage of your Holy Nova and Penance spells.
    灼热之光(神圣):现在同样增加神圣新星与苦行的伤害。
  29. 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。
  30. 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。

英英释义

noun

  1. a Catholic sacrament

    1. voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing

        Synonym:    self-mortificationself-abasement

      1. remorse for your past conduct

          Synonym:    repentancepenitence