expiate
vt. <正>為(所犯罪過)接受懲罰,贖(罪)
If you expiate guilty feelings or bad behaviour, you do something to indicate that you are sorry for what you have done.
It seemed that Alice was expiating her father's sins with her charity work.
似乎艾麗斯正在透過自己的慈善工作來彌補父親的罪過。
1. make amends for;
He had a chance to confess and expiate his guilt.
他有認錯和贖罪的機會。
Even death would not expiate all his crimes.
死有餘辜.
Now I was to expiate all my offences at the gallows.
現在我將在絞刑架上贖我一切的罪過.
He tried to expiate his crimes by giving money to the church.
他以捐款給教會來贖罪.
I do not wish to expiate, but to live.
我不想贖罪, 只想生活.