penance

英 [ˈpenəns]

美 [ˈpenəns]

n. 补赎; 悔罪; 修和圣事; 苦差事; 被迫做的事

复数：penances　

BNC.15780 / COCA.16731

牛津词典

noun

补赎；悔罪；修和圣事
an act that you give yourself to do, or that a priest gives you to do in order to show that you are sorry for sth you have done wrong
1. an act of penance
  赎罪善功
2. to do penance for your sins
  为自己的罪过做补赎
苦差事；被迫做的事
something that you have to do even though you do not like doing it
1. She regards living in New York as a penance; she hates big cities.
  她把住在纽约视为一件苦事——她讨厌大都市。

noun

a Catholic sacrament
voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing
Synonym:self-mortificationself-abasement
remorse for your past conduct
Synonym:repentancepenitence

Jogging becomes a sort of penance for our sins of gluttony, greed, and waste.
慢跑成了我们对自己的暴殄，贪婪，以及浪费的赎罪。
The king of the gods had to perform penance to atone for his transgression.
众神之王不得不以苦行来为自己的过错赎罪。
He believed the death of his child was penance for his sins.
他认为孩子的死是对他罪过的惩罚。
History slowly smothers its truth, but hastily struggles to revive it in the terrible penance of pain.
历史缓慢地将真理窒息，但又仓促地在忏悔巨大痛苦中竭力令其复活。
Yeah. I'm doing penance for forgetting her birthday last week.
是啊。我是在为上星期忘了她生日赎罪。
And I wiII do penance for it for the rest of my life.
我要用我的余生忏悔。
Searing Light ( Holy): Now also increases the damage of your Holy Nova and Penance spells.
灼热之光（神圣）：现在同样增加神圣新星与苦行的伤害。
He was sent barefoot wearing only a hair shirt into the wilderness as a penance.
为了赎罪，他跣足褐衣，被流放到了荒野中。
If I have taken a wrong direction would I, like Peter, do the one any only thing that can invert the wrong direction: penance and conversion?
是否我像伯多禄一样，站了个错误方位，我是否做了那唯一能翻转错误方位的行动，悔改和转变？
He received an axe after doing penance for Shiva.
他为湿婆作了忏悔后获得一把斧头。