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　

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。

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

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。
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。
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？
A person who whips himself as a religious penance.
鞭打自己来作为宗教上的忏悔的人。
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。
They are doing penance for their sins.
他们正在为自己所犯的罪而悔过。
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。
And I wiII do penance for it for the rest of my life.
我要用我的余生忏悔。
They had confessed their sins and done their penance.
他们已经告罪并做了补赎。