penance
英 ['pen?ns]
美['p?n?ns]
- vt. 使…以苦行赎罪
- n. 苦修；忏悔
GRE畅通词汇
词态变化
复数:?penances;
助记提示
1. penitence => penance.
中文词源
penance 悔罪，赎罪
来自古法语peneance,来自拉丁语paenitentia,忏悔，悔罪，词源同penitence.
英文词源
- penance
- penance: see pain
- penance (n.)
- late 13c., "religious discipline or self-mortification as a token of repentance and as atonement for some sin," from Anglo-French penaunce, Old French peneance (12c.), from Latin p?nitentia (see penitence). Transferred sense is recorded from c. 1300.
双语例句
- 1. 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。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. an act of penance
- 赎罪善功
来自《权威词典》
- 3. They had confessed their sins and done their penance.
- 他们已经告罪并做了补赎.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 4. Are you willing to do penance for your sins, my son?
- 你愿意以苦刑赎你的罪吗, 孩子?
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 5. She knelt at her mother's feet in penance.
- 她忏悔地跪在母亲脚下.
来自《简明英汉词典》