penance

英 ['penəns] 美['pɛnəns]
  • vt. 使…以苦行赎罪
  • n. 苦修;忏悔

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 pænitentia (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》