penance

英['penəns]美['penəns]
  • n. 自我惩罚；忏悔；赎罪
  • v. 使忏悔

    • 记忆方法

    词源记忆法
    来自古法语peneance，来自拉丁语paenitentia，忏悔，悔罪，词源同penitence.
      noun(名词)
      1. 悔过，悔罪;补赎

    双解例句

    noun(名词)
    1. 悔过，悔罪;补赎

      As a penance, she said she would buy them all a box of chocolates.

      为了表示歉意，她说她要给他们每个人都买一盒巧克力。

      They are doing penance for their sins.

      他们正在为自己的罪过而忏悔。

    小知识

    Penance is the act of doing a good deed to make up for past wrongs. Shoveling your neighbor's sidewalk all winter could be your penance for not helping rake the leaves that dropped from your tree into his yard during the fall.

    Although the noun penance can mean any remorse for past mistakes, or any voluntary action meant to right the wrong, Penance, with a capital P, also specifically refers to a sacrament in the Catholic Church. When a person receives Penance, he or she confesses sins to a priest, and along with a blessing, receives an order to do something, such as say certain prayers. This assignment is also called penance.

    实用短语

    1. sacrament of penance

      告解礼,告解,圣事

    2. public penance

      明补赎,公开补赎,当众做补赎

    3. arjuna's penance

      阿周那的苦行,阿周那的苦修

    4. penance for politicians

      政客赎罪

    5. angels of penance

      忏悔天使

    6. penance e

      忏悔

    7. carbon penance

      不环保

    8. a mortifying penance

      一次修行的忏悔

    9. hour of penance

      表演者,小时的忏悔

    单词用法

    词根词缀
    词根 pen, pun= penalty, to punish 惩罚 impunity n. 不受惩罚 im 不 + pun 惩罚 + ity 具备某种性质，状况 → 不受惩罚 penal adj. 刑罚的 pen 惩罚 + al …的 → 刑罚的 penalize v. 处罚 penal〔= pen〕惩罚 + ize 使 → 处罚 penalty n. 惩罚 penal 刑罚的 + ty 表情况 → 惩罚 penance n. 赎罪 pen 惩罚 + ance 表状况 → 接受惩罚 → 赎罪 penitent adj. 后悔的 penit〔= pen〕惩罚 + ent 具有…性质的，关于…的 → 因受惩罚而后悔 → 后悔的 punish v. 惩罚 pun 惩罚 + ish 使… → 惩罚 punishment n. 惩罚 punish 惩罚 + ment 表结果 → 惩罚 repent v. 后悔 re 反 + pent〔= pen〕惩罚 → 反过来惩罚自己 → 后悔

    词根词缀

    词根: pen

    =penalty,表示”惩罚;痛苦”

    • adj.

      penal 刑事的

      pen惩罚;痛苦+al……的→adj.刑事的

      penitent 后悔的,忏悔的

      peni=pen惩罚;痛苦+t+ent表形容词→受惩罚后而后悔→后悔的

    • n.

      penalty 处罚,刑罚,惩罚,罚金

      penal[adj.刑事的]+ty表名词→n.处罚,刑罚,惩罚,罚金

      penance 自我惩罚

      pen惩罚;痛苦+ance表名词→n.自我惩罚

    • v.

      penalize 置[某人]于不利地位,处罚

      penal[adj.刑事的]+ize表动词→v.置[某人]于不利地位,处罚

      repent 悔悟,悔改

      re反+pen惩罚;痛苦+t→反过来惩罚[自己]→后悔

    同义词

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