penitence
英 [ˈpenɪtəns]
美 [ˈpenɪtəns]
n. 忏悔; 悔罪; 愧疚
BNC.34361 / COCA.31695
牛津词典
noun
- 忏悔；悔罪；愧疚
a feeling of being sorry because you have done sth wrong
柯林斯词典
- 悔过；忏悔；愧疚
Penitenceis sincere regret for wrong or evil things that you have done.
英英释义
noun
- remorse for your past conduct
双语例句
- He does not know, for no one can, of my infinite penitence and sickness of the heart.
他不知道（谁都不可能知道），我的无限悔恨和厌倦。 - Of penitence, there has been none!
可是悔过呢，还一点没有！ - Penitence with not penitence perhaps later would understand of.
后悔与不后悔也许以后会明白的。 - The message, she thought, would be one of affectionate penitence to her father.
信息，她想，那准是对父亲的充满感情的忏悔。 - Here had been her sin; here, her sorrow; and here was yet to be her penitence.
这里有过她的罪孽，这里有过她的悲伤，这里也还会有她的忏悔。 - Rather smile to shed tears also don't cry to say penitence!
宁愿笑着流泪，也不哭着说后悔！ - He ezpressed his penitence for what he had done.
对他的所作所为他表示悔过。 - This morbid meddling of conscience with an immaterial matter betokened, it is to be feared, no genuine and steadfast penitence, but something doubtful, something that might be deeply wrong, beneath.
把良心和一件无关紧要的事情病态地联系在一起，恐怕并不能说明真心实意的仟悔，其背后可能有些颇值怀疑和极其荒谬的东西。 - The pattern of restorative judicature differs greatly from the pattern of traditional retributive justice, which takes great advantage of the criminal's penitence, repentance, and the victim's pardon.
恢复性司法模式与传统报应性司法模式有很多不同特点，它把犯罪人的悔恨、忏悔和被害人的宽恕作为重要因素。 - Having expressed penitence and sworn, in future, to follow the Pope's directions in dealing with his German opponents, he was pardoned and received back into communion.
在他表示过忏悔并宣誓将来一定按照教皇指示对待教皇在德意志的敌对者之后，才承蒙赦罪并恢复了教籍。