an act of penance
赎罪善功
to do penance for your sins
为自己的罪过做补赎
She regards living in New York as a penance; she hates big cities.
她把住在纽约视为苦事，她讨厌大都市。
1.忏悔;悔过;(赎罪的)苦行
2.【天主】补赎;忏悔式
1.使苦行赎罪;处罚
1.punishment or suffering that you accept, especially because of your religious beliefs, to show that you are sorry for something bad that you have done
1.So she sat me down, forced out a confession, and the delivered her own penance. Whacking me with a damp shoe she'd just taken off my foot.
她要我坐下，认真忏悔，并采用了她自己的惩罚方式—用我刚脱下的湿漉漉的鞋狠狠地打我。
2.Before 1174 he is only once recorded at Canterbury. After his penance, he made at least ten more visits.
据载，在1174年之前，亨利国王只去过一次坎特伯雷，而此次忏悔后，至少又去过十多次。
3.Penance in its time, not to mention God, is the tiny micro-organisms ---- virus cells, do not look at it.
在它苦修的时候，别说神，就是最微小的微生物----病毒细胞，也不瞧它一眼。
4.And I was one of those, so I am either doing penance for that or trying to explain those peoples' positions.
我是其中之一，所以我无论做苦行或试图解释这些人民的立场。
5.you come around to the hotel to - morrow , " she said , as sort of penance for error" .
“那你明天到旅馆来找我吧，”她说，作为悔过的表示。
6.Be that as it may. If our good senator was a political sinner, he was in a fair way to expiate it by his night's penance.
不管怎么说，如果我们这位好心的参议员在政治上有罪的话，那么他那天夜晚的苦行也足以抵消他的罪名了。
7.But I'm hardly going to come to give Mr Heathcliff pleasure; whatever reason he may have for ordering Linton to undergo this penance.
可是我来，可不是为了给希刺克厉夫先生凑趣的；不管他有什么理由命令林惇来受这个罪。
8."It's as if the ECB has sinned and has to do penance, " says Julian Callow at Barclays Capital.
巴克莱投资银行经济学家的朱利安•卡洛说“这好像是欧洲央行犯了错，不得不在忏悔一样。”
9.Henry decided to purge his excommunication and get the interdict on his territories withdrawn by apologizing and doing penance.
亨利决定通过道歉、忏悔以让教皇恢复他的教籍，重新获得领地上行使教权。
10.It is meant to be a sign of penance for years of alleged GNP corruption.
它被认为是苦行的标志多年来涉嫌的GNP腐败。