penance
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英 ['pen?ns]
美['p?n?ns]
- vt. 使…以苦行贖罪
- n. 苦修；懺悔
GRE暢通詞匯
詞態變化
復數:?penances;
助記提示
1. penitence => penance.
中文詞源
penance 悔罪，贖罪
來自古法語peneance,來自拉丁語paenitentia,懺悔，悔罪，詞源同penitence.
英文詞源
- 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 p?nitentia (see penitence). Transferred sense is recorded from c. 1300.
雙語例句
- 1. The Koran recommends fasting as a penance before pilgrimages.
- 《古蘭經》勸告人們在朝圣前齋戒，以作為一種補贖。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. an act of penance
- 贖罪善功
來自《權威詞典》
- 3. They had confessed their sins and done their penance.
- 他們已經告罪并做了補贖.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 4. Are you willing to do penance for your sins, my son?
- 你愿意以苦刑贖你的罪嗎, 孩子?
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 5. She knelt at her mother's feet in penance.
- 她懺悔地跪在母親腳下.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》