英 [ˈpenəns] 美 [ˈpenəns]
n. 忏悔；苦修；苦差事
v. 使忏悔；使苦修
复数penances
第三人称单数penances
现在分词penancing
过去式penanced
过去分词penanced
penance /ˈpɛnəns/
有变体名词 If you do penance for something wrong that you have done, you do something that you find unpleasant to show that you are sorry. 赎罪; 悔罪; 忏悔
...a time of fasting, penance, and pilgrimage.
...斋戒、赎罪和朝圣的一个时代。
remorse for your past conduct
同义词： repentance / penitence
a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and satisfaction and absolution
voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing
同义词： self-mortification / self-abasement
忏悔-引用次数：4
According to Hawthorne, only when man accepted the fact of man's Innate Depravity could he atone for his sin. Only by means of penance, repentance and atonement could man get close to God.
霍桑认为人只有首先感悟到自己的内在堕落才能产生忏悔之意，通过忏悔、悔改及赎罪人才能接近上帝。
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告解（Penance） 告解，又称为忏悔，是天主教徒向神甫告明他们所犯罪过的圣事，以此表明他们真诚的悔意和痛改前非的决心，然后神甫以上帝的名义宽...
这是一个(A)极端诡异(Strange)却很无奈的场景：一个室如悬磬的年轻人源委数年苦修(Penance)和发奋，女人管你借钱，数量小可以不太在乎，数量大要么不借，借了就是认了。
赎罪(Penance)赎罪(Penance)
苦修；忏悔
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。
Of penance, I have had enough!
忏悔嘛，我已经做得够多的了！
It is not mortification, a penance.
这不是羞辱，而是苦行。
She's the priest in this movie, on hand to offer benediction, forgiveness and ultimately penance.
She found something saintly and crazed in his undertaking, an element of self-denial, an element of penance.
Not much for him, anyway, as he's already foregoing his 2012 bonus as penance for RBS's IT meltdown last summer.