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

And this is his penance too, to live without us.
这也是对他的惩罚，失去我们而生活。
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。
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。
For me, it's more penance than a passion.
对我来说，这痛苦的成份多于热情。
The king of the gods had to perform penance to atone for his transgression.
众神之王不得不以苦行来为自己的过错赎罪。
A person who whips himself as a religious penance.
鞭打自己来作为宗教上的忏悔的人。
Priest: Inner Focus will now properly increase the critical strike chance of the talent Penance.
牧师：心灵专注现在能正确地提高忏悔天赋的暴击率。
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。
You catch murderers to pay off your penance.
你抓凶手就是为了赎自己的罪。
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？