penance

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˈpen.əns]
• 美式音标 [ˈpen.əns]
• 国际音标 ['penəns]
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基本解释

• n. 忏悔；苦修；苦差事
• v. 使忏悔；使苦修

词根记忆

• pen(惩罚) + ance→惩罚→自我惩罚

同根派生

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英汉例句

• 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。
• an act of penance
  赎罪善功
• They had confessed their sins and done their penance.
  他们已经告罪并做了补赎.
• an act of penance
  赎罪善功
• 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。

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词组短语

短语

• Penance Stare 忏悔凝视
• public penance 公开补赎;明补赎;当众做补赎
• penance e 忏悔
• Carbon Penance 不环保
• do penance 忏悔

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英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• an act that shows that you feel sorry about something that you have done, sometimes for religious reasons

柯林斯英英字典

• If you do penance for something wrong that you have done, you do something that you find unpleasant to show that you are sorry.

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专业释义

文学

• 忏悔

  According to Hawthorne, only when man accepted the fact of man's Innate Depravity could he atone for his sin. Only by means of penance, repentance and atonement could man get close to God.
  霍桑认为人只有首先感悟到自己的内在堕落才能产生忏悔之意，通过忏悔、悔改及赎罪人才能接近上帝。

  宗教学

• 补赎