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.
雙語例句
1. The Koran recommends fasting as a penance before pilgrimages.
《古蘭經(jīng)》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(quán)威詞典》
3. They had confessed their sins and done their penance.
他們已經(jīng)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?