penance的中文翻譯是什麼意思
penance
n. （贖罪的）苦行，苦修
penance的柯林斯釋義
N-VAR補贖；悔罪；懺悔
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...
齋戒、補贖和朝聖的時代
The Koran recommends fasting as a penance before pilgrimages.
《古蘭經》勸告人們在朝聖前齋戒，以作為一種補贖。
penance的英文釋義
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的場景例句
Recession, they reason, must be a penance for past profligacy.
經濟衰退, 他們推斷, 肯定是對過去大肆揮霍的贖罪.
The king of the gods had to perform penance to atone for his transgression.
眾神之王不得不以苦行來為自己的過錯贖罪.
A greater penance than even Zeus himself had placed on the Titans.
那是一個比宙斯自己下給泰坦的要更為可怕的贖罪.
I thought about the similarities between the Catholic ritual of penance and Buddhist practices for purification.
我想到天主教告解儀式和佛教滌罪的儀式的共同點.
Beating oneself a long tradition in a number of religions as a form of penance.
鞭撻懲罰自己作為懺悔的方式在許多宗教裡有著悠久的傳統.