英语释义

• a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and satisfaction and absolution

• remorse for your past conduct

• voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing

片语

Carbon Penance不环保

Penance&Silent world使忏悔；使苦修

do penance忏悔

the sense of penance忏悔意识

shrift忏悔；认罪；临终忏悔

public penance公开补赎

Sacrament of PenanceThe Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation (commonly called Confession, Reconciliation or Penance) is one of seven sacraments of the Catholic Church and sacred mysteries of Eastern Christianity, in which the faithful obtain divine mercy for the sins committed against God and neighbour and are reconciled with the community of the Church (Cf. Vatican II, Lumen Gentium 11 §2; CCC 1422).

Penance Stare忏悔凝视

confession忏悔，告解；供认；表白

penance e忏悔

英汉例句

• ash wednesday is the first day of lent, a season of penance and reflection.

  圣灰星期三是苦行与沉思的时节——四月斋的第一天。

• another penance was the drinking of milk.

  另一桩苦行就是饮用牛奶。

• what is the use of penance if god is not seen within and without?

  如果既在内也在外都看见神，那么苦修又有何必要？

• four years later, rhoda is released from prison, but instead of picking up where she left off, she decides she still needs to do penance and takes a job as a school janitor.

  四年之后，rhoda从监狱释放。她认为她仍然需要苦修，接受了在学校当门卫的工作，而不是接着她停下来的地方继续做。

• 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。

• 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。

• recession, they reason, must be a penance for past profligacy.

  人们争辩说，经济衰退必然是过去挥霍无度的一种自我惩罚。

• 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。

• 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。

• 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。

• and as an act of penance he pledged to forgo his stock options this year and repay the performance bonus in his 2010 pay, worth €1.6m.

  作为一个认错的举动，他承诺放弃今年的股份认购权，并将返还他去年的绩效津贴，价值160万欧元。

• 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。

• 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。

相似词

penitence后悔；赎罪

punishment惩罚；严厉对待，虐待

apology道歉；谢罪；辩护；勉强的替代物