penance
penance 英 [ˈpenəns] 美 [ˈpɛnəns]
vt. 使…以苦行赎罪 n. 苦修；忏悔
名词复数:penances
- Penance is the act of doing a good deed to make up for past wrongs. Shoveling your neighbor's sidewalk all winter could be your penance for not helping rake the leaves that dropped from your tree into his yard during the fall.
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- vt. 使…以苦行赎罪
- n. 苦修；忏悔
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1. Her penance for her sin is to forgive herself and declare that sin dead.
她为她的罪行做的忏悔是为了宽恕自己，宣布罪行死亡。
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2. In both cases, the people involved said that the Virgin Mary gave them predictions of future events and preached prayer and penance.
在这两起事件中，相关人士言道，圣母给他们未来事件的预言，并劝诫其祈祷和忏悔。
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3. The job, which involved the transcription of oral history tapes, had about it a quality of penance that suited me, though after a time I discovered to my chagrin that I was having fun.
这份工作是把口述历史录音带用文字记录下来，而这倒是有一种对我很相宜的苦修味道，尽管过了一阵子，我不无懊恼地发现，我正乐在其中。
- 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 pænitentia (see penitence). Transferred sense is recorded from c. 1300.
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