penance

英 [ˈpenəns]

美 [ˈpenəns]

n. 补赎; 悔罪; 修和圣事; 苦差事; 被迫做的事

复数：penances　

BNC.15780 / COCA.16731

牛津词典

noun

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
1. an act of penance
  赎罪善功
2. to do penance for your sins
  为自己的罪过做补赎
苦差事；被迫做的事
something that you have to do even though you do not like doing it
1. 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。

noun

a Catholic sacrament
voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing
Synonym:self-mortificationself-abasement
remorse for your past conduct
Synonym:repentancepenitence

He received an axe after doing penance for Shiva.
他为湿婆作了忏悔后获得一把斧头。
It is my firm resolve that if I cannot find a shady shelter and a companion for my penance, I shall never turn ascetic.
这是我坚定的决心，如果我找不到一个荫凉的住处和一个忏悔的伴侣，我将永远不会变成一个苦行者。
The king of the gods had to perform penance to atone for his transgression.
众神之王不得不以苦行来为自己的过错赎罪。
For me, it's more penance than a passion.
对我来说，这痛苦的成份多于热情。
If I have taken a wrong direction would I, like Peter, do the one any only thing that can invert the wrong direction: penance and conversion?
是否我像伯多禄一样，站了个错误方位，我是否做了那唯一能翻转错误方位的行动，悔改和转变？
We must do penance for our sins.
我们必须苦修赎罪。
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。
As a penance, she said she would buy them all a box of chocolates.
为表示歉意，她说要给他们每人买一盒巧克力。
Jogging becomes a sort of penance for our sins of gluttony, greed, and waste.
慢跑成了我们对自己的暴殄，贪婪，以及浪费的赎罪。
They had confessed their sins and done their penance.
他们已经告罪并做了补赎。