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penance [ˈpɛnəns]

n. （赎罪的）苦行，苦修;
复数：: penances

例句:

  • 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。
  • They look so in need of punishment and penance.
    来自G. Swift
  • an act of penance
    赎罪善功
  • They had confessed their sins and done their penance.
    他们已经告罪并做了补赎.
  • "Mansfield Park" was her and our penance.
    来自NEWYORKER
  • Clothes thee in weed of penance, murk and dun.
    来自Hartley Coleridge