Repentance
[rɪ'pent(ə)ns] or [rɪ'pɛntəns]
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of repenting, or the state of being penitent; sorrow for what one has done or omitted to do; especially, contrition for sin.
校對:克劳斯
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Penitence, contrition, compunction, remorse, regret, self-reproach, self-reproof, self-accusation, self-condemnation, stings of conscience.
編輯:蒂姆
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Penitence, contrition, compunction, regret, remorse, borrow, self-reproach,selfcondemnation
ANT:Impenitence, obduracy, recusancy, hardness, reparation, selfapproval
布伦达編輯
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.
埃利奥特錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- Repentance, replied the man, whose sinister brow gathered clouds as he spoke. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Pardon, succour, and brotherly love await your repentance. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- 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.
- At length I gathered resolution to address him, in a pause of the tempest of his passion: Your repentance, I said, is now superfluous. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Repentance is said to be its cure, sir. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- If I had stayed a moment more, I know not what words might have escaped me which I should have remembered with vain repentance and regret. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Atone, by repentance and better conduct, for the shocking action you have committed, and the dreadful consequences to which it has led. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- The impatience of my sister's disposition now returned on her, awakened by repentance, sharpened by remorse. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- I began to doubt whether she might not be repenting of her engagement--just as young ladies often do, when repentance comes too late. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- She felt the engagement to be a source of repentance and misery to eachshe dissolved it. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- I began to experience remorse, repentance; the wish for reconcilement to my Maker. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- He was a John the Baptist who took ennoblement rather than repentance for his text. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Of repentance or remorse or any feeling of mine, Lady Dedlock presently proceeds, I say not a word. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Do we not all die through your sins, O generation of unbelief, and have we not a right to demand of you repentance and obedience? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- It was a characteristic feature in this repentance, that I was fain to ask what these two men had done, to be there at all. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
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