atonement是什么意思？

atonement

英[ə'təʊnmənt] 美[əˈtonmənt]

• n. 弥补，赎罪，（神与人的）调和，（常大写）（耶稣的苦难和死促成的）上帝与人的和好；

动词：atone;

例句

• an atonement ceremony 赎罪的仪式
• We expect the transgressor to make any atonement possible to him. 我们期待犯了过失的人有可能做到的赎罪行为.
• He's living in a monastery in a gesture of atonement for human rights abuses committed under his leadership. 为了弥补自己当权时对人权的践踏，他以出家来谢罪。
• True guilt is characterized by a readiness to make atonement for having done wrong. 真正的内疚表现为愿意弥补所犯的过错。
• He's living in a monastery in a gesture of atonement for human rights abuses committed under his leadership... 为了弥补自己当权时对人权的践踏，他以出家来谢罪。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-UNCOUNT
  赎罪；弥补；补偿
  If you do something as an atonement for doing something wrong, you do it to show that you are sorry.
  例句
  He's living in a monastery in a gesture of atonement for human rights abuses committed under his leadership... 为了弥补自己当权时对人权的践踏，他以出家来谢罪。 True guilt is characterized by a readiness to make atonement for having done wrong. 真正的内疚表现为愿意弥补所犯的过错。

英汉词典释义

• n.
  弥补,补偿；赎罪
  an atonement ceremony 赎罪的仪式

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. compensation for a wrong;
  "we were unable to get satisfaction from the local store"
  2. the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity)