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- 1. The motive for confession is penitential or therapeutic—by speaking openly about personal guilt and suffering, the poet hopes to make them easier to bear.
- 忏悔的动机是赎罪或治疗：诗人希望通过公开谈论个人的罪行和痛苦，让自己更容易接受它们。
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- 2. For three days the Pope kept him waiting, barefoot and in penitential garb.
- 教皇让他穿着悔罪服，赤着脚在堡外等候了三天。
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- 3. Instead, her life could be seen as an ideal model for Florentine penitential women.
- 对于佛罗伦萨的悔罪妇女来说，她的一生被视作是一个理想的典范。
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- 4. Apparently the man's zeal for agriculture had burned with a failing flame, expiring in penitential ashes.
- 显然，男子对农业的热情只是燃出了失败的火焰，熄灭在后悔的灰烬里。
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- 5. The penitential canons are imposed only on the living, and no burden ought to be imposed on the dying, according to them.
- 大炮的悔罪只有实行的生活，没有任何负担应该是对死亡的，根据他们。
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- 6. 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!
- 要是他们想为同伴们服务，那就先强制自己仟悔他们的卑下，以表明良心的力量和存在吧！
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- 7. 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!
- 要是他们想为同伴们服务，那就先强制自己仟悔他们的卑下，以表明良心的力量和存在吧！
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