late 13c., "religious discipline or self-mortification as a token of repentance and as atonement for some sin," from Anglo-French penaunce, Old French peneance (12c.), from Latin pænitentia (see penitence). Transferred sense is recorded from c. 1300.
双语例句
1. The Koran recommends fasting as a penance before pilgrimages.
《古兰经》劝告人们在朝圣前斋戒，以作为一种补赎。
来自柯林斯例句
2. an act of penance
赎罪善功
来自《权威词典》
3. They had confessed their sins and done their penance.
他们已经告罪并做了补赎.
来自《简明英汉词典》
4. Are you willing to do penance for your sins, my son?