atonement
atonement 英 [ə'təʊnmənt] 美 [əˈtonmənt]
n. 赎罪；补偿，弥补
名词复数:atonements
- When you apologize for doing something wrong, that’s an act of atonement. Many religions have rituals of atonement, such as Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, on which people of the Jewish faith repent for their sins.
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- n. 赎罪；补偿，弥补
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1. It is the blood as life that effects expiation, purging and atonement.
这血有如生命，可以在赎罪、净化和补偿时起作用。
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2. In literature and on celluloid, atonement originates from pangs of remorse felt by an individual.
在文学作品和电影中，赎罪往往源自一个人深深的后悔自责带来的折磨。
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3. Having worked as an extra on Band of Brothers, he was familiar with the world of film-sets, but atonement was in another league.
由于在《兄弟连》中当过临时演员，他还是比较熟悉电影布景的世界，但《赎罪》就完全是另一番天地。
- atonement (n.) 1510s, "condition of being at one (with others)," a sense now obsolete, from atone + -ment. Theological meaning "reconciliation" (of man with God through the life, passion, and death of Christ) is from 1520s; that of "satisfaction or reparation for wrong or injury, propitiation of an offended party" is from 1610s.
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