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

• A person who whips himself as a religious penance.
  鞭打自己来作为宗教上的忏悔的人。
• There is no penance hard enough for me.
  我再怎么忏悔也难补偿。
• For me, it's more penance than a passion.
  对我来说，这痛苦的成份多于热情。
• 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。
• We must do penance for our sins.
  我们必须苦修赎罪。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。