penitence

英 [ˈpenɪtəns]

美 [ˈpenɪtəns]

n.  忏悔; 悔罪; 愧疚

法律

BNC.34361 / COCA.31695

牛津词典

noun

• 忏悔；悔罪；愧疚
  a feeling of being sorry because you have done sth wrong

柯林斯词典

• 悔过；忏悔；愧疚
  Penitenceis sincere regret for wrong or evil things that you have done.

英英释义

noun

• remorse for your past conduct
  Synonym:repentancepenance

双语例句

• Repentant "Noble"," Noble "Repentance& Re-Probe of A Superfluous Remark; of or relating to penitence or penance.
  忏悔的“贵族”“贵族”的忏悔&再论瞿秋白《多余的话》属于或关于悔罪或忏悔的。
• The message, she thought, would be one of affectionate penitence to her father.
  信息，她想，那准是对父亲的充满感情的忏悔。
• The thief expressed penitence for all his past actions.
  那盗贼对他犯过的一切罪恶表示忏悔。
• He ezpressed his penitence for what he had done.
  对他的所作所为他表示悔过。
• Having expressed penitence and sworn, in future, to follow the Pope's directions in dealing with his German opponents, he was pardoned and received back into communion.
  在他表示过忏悔并宣誓将来一定按照教皇指示对待教皇在德意志的敌对者之后，才承蒙赦罪并恢复了教籍。
• However, the subjective factors in other category of personal danger, which are ordinary conduct, penitence behavior, can affect criminal liability at a different extent, so personal danger is the basis of heavy or light criminal liability.
  但犯罪构成以外的那些属于人身危险性范畴的主观因素如平时表现、悔罪表现等，不同程度地影响刑事责任的大小，因此人身危险性是刑事责任大小的根据之一。
• Never regret, penitence emotions than you do wrong thing more terrible, because it will destroy your self-confidence and self-esteem and may well get you to do something more something wrong.
  不要后悔，后悔的情绪比你所做错的事更可怕，因为这会摧毁你的自信，自尊以及很可能让你去做一件更错的事。
• The strong sense of penitence made him eager for perfect personality.
  一方面浓重的忏悔意识使他企慕完美人格；
• At the moment, I have penitence pole.
  此刻，我后悔极了。
• Of penitence, there has been none!
  可是悔过呢，还一点没有！