penance

英 [ˈpenəns]

美 [ˈpenəns]

n. 补赎; 悔罪; 修和圣事; 苦差事; 被迫做的事

复数：penances　

BNC.15780 / COCA.16731

牛津词典

noun

补赎；悔罪；修和圣事
an act that you give yourself to do, or that a priest gives you to do in order to show that you are sorry for sth you have done wrong
1. an act of penance
  赎罪善功
2. to do penance for your sins
  为自己的罪过做补赎
苦差事；被迫做的事
something that you have to do even though you do not like doing it
1. 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。

noun

a Catholic sacrament
voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing
Synonym:self-mortificationself-abasement
remorse for your past conduct
Synonym:repentancepenitence

Searing Light ( Holy): Now also increases the damage of your Holy Nova and Penance spells.
灼热之光（神圣）：现在同样增加神圣新星与苦行的伤害。
As a penance, she said she would buy them all a box of chocolates.
为表示歉意，她说要给他们每人买一盒巧克力。
Yeah. I'm doing penance for forgetting her birthday last week.
是啊。我是在为上星期忘了她生日赎罪。
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。
And I wiII do penance for it for the rest of my life.
我要用我的余生忏悔。
If you really did penance you wouldn't have to.
如果你真的付钱赎罪可能就不用走了。
If I have taken a wrong direction would I, like Peter, do the one any only thing that can invert the wrong direction: penance and conversion?
是否我像伯多禄一样，站了个错误方位，我是否做了那唯一能翻转错误方位的行动，悔改和转变？
A person who whips himself as a religious penance.
鞭打自己来作为宗教上的忏悔的人。
He performed severe penance for many years to gain enough power to become the king of the three worlds.
他苦行多年，获得了足够的功力而成为了三界的国王。
I mean, you've been banished to the tool shed to do your penance.
我是说，你都被放逐到工具储藏室来忏悔了。