penance

美 [ˈpenəns]英 [ˈpenəns]
  • n.忏悔;补赎;悔罪;修和圣事;苦差事;被迫做的事
  • v.使苦行赎罪;处罚

复数: penances

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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

an act of penance

赎罪善功

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

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。

penance

频次

  • 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.

    ...a time of fasting, penance and pilgrimage...

    斋戒、补赎和朝圣的时代

noun

1
a Catholic sacrament;repentance and confession and atonement and absolution
2
voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing
Synonym: self-mortification self-abasement
3
remorse for your past conduct
Synonym: repentance penitence

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  1. She knelt at her mother 's feet in penance .

    她忏悔地跪在母亲脚下。

  2. I asked for forgiveness . I found peace in my penance .

    我向上帝祈求原谅并在忏悔中得到平静

  3. 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。

  4. 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。

  5. Recession , they reason , must be a penance for past profligacy .

    经济衰退,他们推断,肯定是对过去大肆挥霍的赎罪

  6. Brahman ! O my child ! Cease from practising further penances .

    婆罗门!我的孩子!请停止练习进一步的苦行

  7. 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。

  8. We shall offer up our lives as penance .

    末将当以死谢罪。

  9. Let them serve their penance by using their skills for a purpose other than self gain .

    让他们利用自己的技能将功补过,为了一个目的,而非私利。

  10. There is no penance hard enough for me .

    我再怎么忏悔也难补偿。

  11. A book or set of church rules concerning the sacrament of penance .

    补赎书或补赎法规。

  12. 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。

  13. Greater Heal , Flash Heal and even Penance should still be cast as needed .

    强效治疗术,快速治疗,甚至是苦修都应该在恰当的时机施放。

  14. Nor double penance , to correct correction .

    矫枉纠偏,不啻双重补赎。

  15. 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。

  16. 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。

  17. 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。

  18. It was a real penance for me to go round the shops with the kids .

    带着孩子们逛商店对我实在是种苦差事。

  19. To attend the Opera when he was conducting was a real penance ;

    但出席他指挥的歌剧简直就是一种自我惩罚;

  20. 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。

  21. 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。

  22. Sister luke , this is the discipline for penance in private .

    路加修女,这是私下作补赎的方式。

  23. And I wiII do penance for it for the rest of my life .

    我要用我的余生忏悔。

  24. The chief executive has served his penance .

    这位首席执行官已经为自己的过错接受了惩罚。

  25. We must do penance for our sins .

    我们必须苦修赎罪。

  26. There are several problems in leading obligation mechanism , educational preventive mechanism , supervise restrictive mechanism , encourage and penance mechanism .

    第三,监察机制不完善,在领导责任机制、教育预防机制、监督约束机制、奖励惩戒机制等方面存在诸多问题。

  27. An uncomfortable shirt made of coarse animal hair ; worn next to the skin as a penance .

    用粗糙的动物毛发做的很不舒服的衬衣;紧贴着皮肤穿表示忏悔。

  28. Still by an irresistible impulse I curse myself with an awful penance .

    我仍旧要情不自禁地悔恨得咬牙切齿,咒骂自己。

  29. They had confessed their sins and done their penance .

    他们已经告罪并做了补赎。

  30. A person who whips himself as a religious penance .

    鞭打自己来作为宗教上的忏悔的人。