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

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。
Acts of sacrifice, charity and penance are not to be given up; they must be performed. Indeed, sacrifice, charity and penance purify even the great souls.
祭祀、布施和苦行都不应放弃；这些活动都必须执行。实际上，祭祀、布施和苦行甚至可以净化伟大的灵魂。
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。
If you really did penance you wouldn't have to.
如果你真的付钱赎罪可能就不用走了。
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。
And I wiII do penance for it for the rest of my life.
我要用我的余生忏悔。
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。
Priest: Inner Focus will now properly increase the critical strike chance of the talent Penance.
牧师：心灵专注现在能正确地提高忏悔天赋的暴击率。
For me, it's more penance than a passion.
对我来说，这痛苦的成份多于热情。
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。