penance是什么意思？

penance

英[ˈpenəns] 美[ˈpɛnəns]

• n. （赎罪的）苦行，苦修；

复数：penances;

例句

• Are you willing to do penance for your sins,my son? 你愿意以苦刑赎你的罪吗,孩子?
• She knelt at her mother’s feet in penance. 她忏悔地跪在母亲脚下。
• Shall be by him amerced with penance due. 要是她错过她的良偶.
• They had confessed their sins and done their penance. 他们已经告罪并做了补赎.
• an act of penance 赎罪善功
• The Koran recommends fasting as a penance before pilgrimages. 《古兰经》劝告人们在朝圣前斋戒，以作为一种补赎。
• ...a time of fasting, penance and pilgrimage... 斋戒、补赎和朝圣的时代

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-VAR
  补赎；悔罪；忏悔
  If you do penance for something wrong that you have done, you do something that you find unpleasant to show that you are sorry.
  例句
  ...a time of fasting, penance and pilgrimage... 斋戒、补赎和朝圣的时代 The Koran recommends fasting as a penance before pilgrimages. 《古兰经》劝告人们在朝圣前斋戒，以作为一种补赎。

英汉词典释义

• n.
  (赎罪的)苦行,苦修
  She knelt at her mother’s feet in penance. 她忏悔地跪在母亲脚下。 They had confessed their sins and done their penance. 他们已经告罪并做了补赎。 Are you willing to do penance for your sins,my son? 你愿意以苦刑赎你的罪吗,孩子?

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. remorse for your past conduct
  2. a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and satisfaction and absolution
  3. voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing

行业词典

• 法律： 宗教法上的刑罚；