Penance
['penəns] or ['pɛnəns]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement and absolution.
(noun.) voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing.
布鲁克整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Repentance.
(n.) Pain; sorrow; suffering.
(n.) A means of repairing a sin committed, and obtaining pardon for it, consisting partly in the performance of expiatory rites, partly in voluntary submission to a punishment corresponding to the transgression. Penance is the fourth of seven sacraments in the Roman Catholic Church.
(v. t.) To impose penance; to punish.
亨廷顿編輯
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Punishment (self-inflicted or imposed by ecclesiastical authority), mortification, maceration, humiliation, penalty.
琼整理
解釋/意思:
n. repentance: external acts performed to manifest sorrow for sin to seek to atone for the sin and to avert the punishment which even after the guilt has been remitted may still remain due to the offence—also the sacrament by which absolution is conveyed (involving contrition confession and satisfaction): any instrument of self-punishment.—v.t. to impose penance on: to punish.
編輯:普鲁登斯
例句/造句/用法:
- I think that after the war there will have to be some great penance done for the killing. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- In some sisterhood of the strictest order, shalt thou have time for prayer and fitting penance, and that repentance not to be repented of. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Seek to prayer and penance, and mayest thou find acceptance! 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- She did a few rows every day, by way of penance for the expiation of her sins. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Holy men have bidden penitents like you to hasten their path upward by penance, self-denial, and difficult good works. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Nay, said the Friar, if thou dost retract vows made in favour of holy Church, thou must do penance. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- These worthies suffer in the flesh and do penance all their lives, I suppose, but they look like consummate famine-breeders. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Gregory the Great urged the people to do penance, and a general procession was formed. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- She must be under some sort of penance, inflicted either by the Campbells or herself. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- She went to Mrs. Goddard's accordingly the very next day, to undergo the necessary penance of communication; and a severe one it was. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- It's more than a Catholic penance, and does no more good. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Likewise, on John's offering a suggestion which didn't meet his views, his face became overcast and reproachful, as enjoining penance. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Such a penance as I have been enduring, while you were sitting here so composed and so happy! 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Be that as it may, if our good senator was a political sinner, he was in a fair way to expiate it by his night's penance. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Here, she must be leading a life of privation and penance; there it would have been all enjoyment. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- It is the same case with those penances, which men inflict on themselves for their past sins and failings. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
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