penance的中文翻译是什么意思
penance
n. （赎罪的）苦行，苦修
penance的柯林斯释义
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.
...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。
penance的英文释义
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
penance的场景例句
Recession, they reason, must be a penance for past profligacy.
经济衰退, 他们推断, 肯定是对过去大肆挥霍的赎罪.
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.
A greater penance than even Zeus himself had placed on the Titans.
那是一个比宙斯自己下给泰坦的要更为可怕的赎罪.
I thought about the similarities between the Catholic ritual of penance and Buddhist practices for purification.
我想到天主教告解仪式和佛教涤罪的仪式的共同点.
Beating oneself a long tradition in a number of religions as a form of penance.
鞭挞惩罚自己作为忏悔的方式在许多宗教里有着悠久的传统.