penance

penance什么意思,penance翻译

基本解释

n.: 补赎；悔罪；修和圣事；苦差事
v.: 使苦行赎罪；处罚
网络: 忏悔；苦修；告解

权威解释

• 补赎；悔罪；修和圣事:

  an act that you give yourself to do, or that a priest gives you to do in order to show that you are sorry for sth you have done wrong

• 苦差事；被迫做的事:

  something that you have to do even though you do not like doing it

英汉解释

• 使苦行赎罪;处罚

• 【天主教】补赎;忏悔式

• 苦修;苦行

• 忏悔;悔过;(赎罪的)苦行

词性分析

• 复数：penances

• 过去分词：penanced

• 现在分词：penancing

同义词

n.self-punishmentreparationforfeitatonementamends

例句

• So she sat me down, forced out a confession, and the delivered her own penance. Whacking me with a damp shoe she"d just taken off my foot.

  她要我坐下，认真忏悔，并采用了她自己的惩罚方式—用我刚脱下的湿漉漉的鞋狠狠地打我。

• Before 1174 he is only once recorded at Canterbury. After his penance, he made at least ten more visits.

  据载，在1174年之前，亨利国王只去过一次坎特伯雷，而此次忏悔后，至少又去过十多次。

• Penance in its time, not to mention God, is the tiny micro-organisms ---- virus cells, do not look at it.

  在它苦修的时候，别说神，就是最微小的微生物----病毒细胞，也不瞧它一眼。

• And I was one of those, so I am either doing penance for that or trying to explain those peoples" positions.

  我是其中之一，所以我无论做苦行或试图解释这些人民的立场。

• you come around to the hotel to - morrow , " she said , as sort of penance for error" .

  “那你明天到旅馆来找我吧，”她说，作为悔过的表示。

• Be that as it may. If our good senator was a political sinner, he was in a fair way to expiate it by his night"s penance.

  不管怎么说，如果我们这位好心的参议员在政治上有罪的话，那么他那天夜晚的苦行也足以抵消他的罪名了。

• But I"m hardly going to come to give Mr Heathcliff pleasure; whatever reason he may have for ordering Linton to undergo this penance.

  可是我来，可不是为了给希刺克厉夫先生凑趣的；不管他有什么理由命令林惇来受这个罪。

• "It"s as if the ECB has sinned and has to do penance, " says Julian Callow at Barclays Capital.

  巴克莱投资银行经济学家的朱利安•卡洛说“这好像是欧洲央行犯了错，不得不在忏悔一样。”

• Henry decided to purge his excommunication and get the interdict on his territories withdrawn by apologizing and doing penance.

  亨利决定通过道歉、忏悔以让教皇恢复他的教籍，重新获得领地上行使教权。

• It is meant to be a sign of penance for years of alleged GNP corruption.

  它被认为是苦行的标志多年来涉嫌的GNP腐败。