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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• They are doing penance for their sins.
  他们正在为自己所犯的罪而悔过。
• There is no penance hard enough for me.
  我再怎么忏悔也难补偿。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。