Atonement
[ə'təʊnm(ə)nt] or [ə'tonmənt]
解释:
(noun.) compensation for a wrong; 'we were unable to get satisfaction from the local store'.
达伦编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) Reconciliation; restoration of friendly relations; agreement; concord.
(n.) Satisfaction or reparation made by giving an equivalent for an injury, or by doing of suffering that which will be received in satisfaction for an offense or injury; expiation; amends; -- with for. Specifically, in theology: The expiation of sin made by the obedience, personal suffering, and death of Christ.
编辑:诺拉
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. [Rare.] Reconciliation, pacification, concord, agreement.[2]. Expiation, propitiation, satisfaction, reparation, amends, peace-offering, atoning sacrifice.
编辑:马里奥
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Reconciliation, expiation, compensation, preparation, satisfaction, recompense
ANT:Alienation, separation, enmity, estrangement, division, offense, transgression
整理:莱克格斯
娱乐性解释：
Means joyous communing with friends, and speculators need not fear any drop in stocks. Courting among the young will meet with happy consummation. The sacrifice or atonement of another for your waywardness, is portentous of the humiliation of self or friends through your open or secret disregard of duty. A woman after this dream is warned of approaching disappointment.
阿德拉录入
例句:
- And I wish to make atonement to you as the one still remaining who has suffered a loss through me. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Now has he made atonement to you--with his life! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- I have a presentiment that if no other innocent atonement is made for this, it will one day be required of him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- I am here to make atonement to you, before I meet your mother in the world beyond the grave. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I owe you this, he said, signing the paper, as some atonement for what passed between us earlier in the evening. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- May I be spared to make some atonement. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- To treat her with unkindness, to speak of her slightingly is no atonement to Mariannenor can I suppose it a relief to your own conscience. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
- Though it is difficult, said Jane, to guess in what way he can mean to make us the atonement he thinks our due, the wish is certainly to his credit. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- It is never too late,' said Rose, 'for penitence and atonement. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- It is the atonement that she is longing to make, poor girl, after having innocently and inevitably wronged him. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- My thoughts have driven me here--I want to make atonement--I want to undo all I can of the harm I once did. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The grace of voice and manner with which she made him that atonement had its due effect on the Sergeant. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- We who walk the greenwood do many a wild deed, and the Lady Rowena's deliverance may be received as an atonement. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- As to you, friend Watson, I owe you every atonement for having allowed your natural curiosity to remain so long unsatisfied. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
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