expiate
发音
英 [ˈekspieɪt]
美 [ˈɛkspiˌet]
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- vt.
- <正>为（所犯罪过）接受惩罚，赎（罪）
单词词源
expiate 接受惩罚，赎罪
ex-, 向外，此处表强调。-pi, 虔诚，弥补，词源同pity, pious. 原指宗教上的虔诚，弥补过失， 请求神的原谅。后词义通用化。
双语例句
- 1. We 'd rather expiate with slavery .
- 我们宁可用苦役来赎罪。
- 2. Then look I death my days should expiate .
- 我就盼死神来了结我的天年。
- 3. After my return to london I had to expiate in bed the consequences of my fatuous complaisance .
- 我回到伦敦以后，只得在病榻上来为我那愚蠢的温顺赎罪。
- 4. It 's what she carries with her ; the spot , the crime , the thing to expiate , always there between her shoulders .
- 重要的是她所背负的；那个污点，那项罪行，要赎的罪，总是在那儿，压在她的肩上。