• vt. 使…以苦行贖罪
• n. 苦修；懺悔

來自古法語peneance,來自拉丁語paenitentia,懺悔，悔罪，詞源同penitence.

penance

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 p?nitentia (see penitence). Transferred sense is recorded from c. 1300.

1. The Koran recommends fasting as a penance before pilgrimages.

《古蘭經》勸告人們在朝圣前齋戒，以作為一種補贖。

來自柯林斯例句

2. an act of penance

贖罪善功

來自《權威詞典》

3. They had confessed their sins and done their penance.

他們已經告罪并做了補贖.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. Are you willing to do penance for your sins, my son?

你愿意以苦刑贖你的罪嗎, 孩子?

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. She knelt at her mother's feet in penance.

她懺悔地跪在母親腳下.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》