penance
                    
      英 [ˈpen.əns]                            
                        美 [ˈpen.əns]                    
                    
                    
                    
                 
                
             
                        
            
                1. penitence => penance.            
                        
            
                penance 悔罪,赎罪来自古法语peneance,来自拉丁语paenitentia,忏悔,悔罪,词源同penitence.
             
                        
            
                
- penance
 
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penance: see pain
 
- penance (n.)
 
- late 13c., "religious discipline or self-mortification as a token of repentance and as atonement for some sin," from Anglo-French penaunce, Old French peneance (12c.), from Latin pænitentia (see penitence). Transferred sense is recorded from c. 1300.
 
                  
                        
            
                
- 1. 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。
   
- 2. an act of penance 
  - 赎罪善功
   
- 3. They had confessed their sins and done their penance. 
  - 他们已经告罪并做了补赎.
   
- 4. Are you willing to do penance for your sins, my son? 
  - 你愿意以苦刑赎你的罪吗, 孩子?
   
- 5. She knelt at her mother's feet in penance. 
  - 她忏悔地跪在母亲脚下.