expiated是什么意思？

expiated

• v. <正>为（所犯罪过）接受惩罚，赎（罪）( expiate的过去式和过去分词 )；

例句

• The thief expiated his theft by giving back the amount stolen and by reforming. 那小偷送回全部偷窃物并改过自新,以为他的偷窃行为赎罪.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• VERB
  赎（罪);抵偿;补偿
  If you expiate guilty feelings or bad behaviour, you do something to indicate that you are sorry for what you have done.
  例句
  It seemed that Alice was expiating her father's sins with her charity work. 似乎艾丽斯正在通过自己的慈善工作来弥补父亲的罪过。