penitential

[美]/penɪ'tenʃ(ə)l/
[英]/ˌpɛnɪ'tɛnʃl/
词频: 极高

释义

adj. 后悔的,忏悔的,苦行赎罪的
n. 赎罪规则书
词形变化

短语搭配

penitential prayer

忏悔祈祷

例句

Columban introduced to Europe the Irish penitential discipline, including private confession.

高隆邦把包括私下忏悔在内的爱尔兰苦修条例介绍给了欧洲。

The penitential act of confessing one's sins

忏悔自己的罪过的行为

She approached the altar with a penitential heart

她带着忏悔的心走向祭坛

The monk spent hours in penitential prayer

这位修士花了几个小时进行忏悔的祈祷

Penitential practices are common during Lent

在四旬斋期间,忏悔的习俗很常见

He wore a penitential expression on his face

他脸上带着忏悔的表情

The penitential psalms are often recited during religious ceremonies

忏悔诗篇经常在宗教仪式中朗诵

She wrote a penitential letter to apologize for her mistake

她写了一封忏悔信来道歉她的错误

The penitential journey to redemption was long and arduous

通往救赎的忏悔之旅漫长而艰难

The penitential rite helped cleanse his soul

忏悔仪式帮助净化了他的灵魂

He performed penitential acts to atone for his sins

他进行忏悔行为来赎罪

原声例句

The penitential den once set apart for interviews with the House, was now the news-Exchange, and was filled to overflowing.

忏悔室曾经专门用来接受众议院的采访,现在是新闻交流中心,人满为患。

来源: A Tale of Two Cities (Original Version)

If they would serve their fellow-men, let them do it by making manifest the power and reality of conscience, in constraining them to penitential self-abasement!

如果他们愿意为他们的同胞服务,就让他们通过彰显良心的力量和现实来做到这一点,迫使他们忏悔自卑!

来源: Red characters

Mr. Bulstrode paused. He felt that he was performing a striking piece of scrupulosity in the judgment of his auditor, and a penitential act in the eyes of God.

布尔斯特罗德先生停顿了一下。他觉得自己在审计员的判断中表现得非常谨慎,在上帝眼中是一种忏悔行为。

来源: Middlemarch (Part Four)

As soon as I arrived, I sent a penitential codfish and barrel of oysters to Joe (as reparation for not having gone myself), and then went on to Barnard's Inn.

我一到,就送了一条忏悔的鳕鱼和一桶牡蛎给乔(作为对我没有去的补偿),然后继续前往巴纳德旅馆。

来源: Great Expectations (Original Version)

In three minutes the Vicar was on horseback again, having gone magnanimously through a duty much harder than the renunciation of whist, or even than the writing of penitential meditations.

三分钟后,牧师又骑在马背上,慷慨地完成了一项比放弃惠斯特,甚至比写忏悔冥想还要艰难得多的职责。

来源: Middlemarch (Part Four)

Penitential colours—less like something she'd chosen to put on than like something she'd been locked up in. Her solemn half-smile; the amazed lift of her eyebrows, as if she were admiring the view.

那是悔罪者衣着的颜色——与其说是她自己选择了这样的颜色,倒不如说是她被关在这种颜色里。还有她那一本正经的似笑非笑、她那被逗乐的扬眉,似乎她在欣赏美景。

来源: The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

It says that if someone is found murdered outside a town the elders of the nearest town have to undergo a penitential ritual and say a prayer for absolution that contains the words, “Our hands did not shed this blood.”

如果有人在一座城镇外被谋杀,那么,最近的城镇中的长者必须进行忏悔仪式,并用下面的话语祈求宽恕:“我们的双手没有沾染鲜血。”

来源: BBC Listening Collection August 2015

But Mr. Bulstrode had to-night followed the order of his emotions; he entertained no doubt that the opportunity for restitution had come, and he had an overpowering impulse towards the penitential expression by which he was deprecating chastisement.

但是布尔斯特罗德先生今晚不得不顺从他的情绪。他毫不怀疑,赔偿的机会已经到来,他对他反对惩罚的忏悔表达产生了一种压倒性的冲动。

来源: Middlemarch (Part Four)

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