penance
vt. 使…以苦行赎罪
n. 苦修；忏悔
n.
（赎罪的）苦行，苦修；
变形
复数：penances
英英释义
penance[ 'penəns ]
n.
remorse for your past conduct
同义词：repentancepenitence
a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and satisfaction and absolution
voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing
同义词：self-mortificationself-abasement
双语例句
用作名词(n.)
He had done penance for his sins, we should forgive him.
他已经为赎罪自我惩罚了，我们应该原谅他。
She regards living in New York as a penance; she hates big cities.
她把住在纽约视为一件苦事,她讨厌大都市。
There is no absolution without penance.
没有忏悔就谈不上宽恕。
She knelt at her mother's feet in penance.
她忏悔地跪在母亲脚下。
Yeah. I'm doing penance for forgetting her birthday last week.
是啊。我是在为上星期忘了她生日赎罪。
权威例句
Penance in the Parish. [with Reply]Penance in Medieval Europe 600–1200
Penance, Punishment and the Limits of Community
Penance and the Making of the Inquisition in Languedoc
'Take this penance now, and afterwards the fare will improve': seafood and late medieval diet
Monks Who Have Sex: "Pārājika"Penance in Indian Buddhist Monasticisms
The Humiliation of Sinners: Public Penance in Thirteenth-Century France
The politics of remorse: penance and royal piety in the reign of Æthelred the Unready
When Talk Is Not Cheap: Substantive Penance and Expressions of Intent in Rebuilding Cooperation
Vatican Orders Scottish Cardinal out of Country; Rare Public Sanction Forces Months of 'Prayer and Penance.'; RELIGION
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.
1. Of penance, I have had enough!
忏悔嘛，我已经做得够多的了！
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2. 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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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。
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4. 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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5. 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。
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6. The Sun was doing its penance with a piece on Jarman.
《太阳报》正在行贾曼的苦修：写一篇贾曼的访稿。
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7. My mother and I are the hardcore insomniacs, for whom sleep is part adventure, part penance.
妈妈和我是完全的失眠症患者，对我们来说睡眠一部分是历险，一部分是苦修。
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8. It is probable that there was an idea of penance in this mode of occupation, and that she offered up a real sacrifice of enjoyment, in devoting so many hours to such rude handiwork.
她做这种活计可能有忏悔的念头，不过，她花这么多时间干粗活，确实牺牲了乐趣。
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9. Can Pain Relieve Guilt? The season of Lent is the time of the year in which Christians call for sacrifice and penance.
在西方基督教国家，每年的大斋期（Lent）是基督徒献供与苦修的时期，也是洗涤罪恶，承蒙天主启示的时期。
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10. I think she may be doing this as some kind of penance.
我想她可能是为了忏悔。
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11. Another penance was the drinking of milk.
另一桩苦行就是饮用牛奶。
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12. My penance, constant in degree, is mutable in kind: one of its variants is tranquillity.
我的赎罪，程度不变，但种类一直在变：其中一种便是平静。
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13. So intense was his penance that a smoke billowed from his head and the entire world was in the danger of annihilation.
他的修行功力十分强大，从他的头上喷出的烟柱会使整个世界处于被毁灭的危险之中。
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14. An expert committee viewed it as part of a continuum of penance and awareness that historians say began with the Auschwitz trials.
一个专家委员会却视其是历史学家自奥斯威辛审判就开始的赎罪与反省的一种延续。
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15. The season of Lent is the time of the year in which Christians call for sacrifice and penance.
每年，基督徒会在大斋节期间苦行和祭悼亡灵，同时涤罪和启智。
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16. 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。
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17. He performed severe penance for many years to gain enough power to become the king of the three worlds.
他苦行多年，获得了足够的功力而成为了三界的国王。
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18. A sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
主日学校，是孩子们为其双亲的邪心、以苦行赎罪的监狱。
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19. A sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
主日学校，是孩子们为其双亲的邪心、以苦行赎罪的监狱。
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