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。
• 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。
• He received an axe after doing penance for Shiva.
  他为湿婆作了忏悔后获得一把斧头。
• 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。
• For me, it's more penance than a passion.
  对我来说，这痛苦的成份多于热情。
• They are doing penance for their sins.
  他们正在为自己所犯的罪而悔过。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。