| 单词 | expiate |
| 释义 | ex·pi·ate /ˈekspieɪt/ verb [transitive] formalCHANGE/BECOME DIFFERENT to show you are sorry for something you have done wrong by accepting your punishment willingly, or trying to do something to improve what you did 为〔做错事而〕甘愿受罚；弥补 She expiated her crime by becoming a nun. 她出家以赎罪。 —expiation /ˌekspiˈeɪʃən/ noun [uncountable]→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusexpiate• He spent the rest of his life trying to expiate for his sins.• Now, swept by red wave upon wave, she had to expiate her failure.• Aristodemus went home and found himself ostracized, a national villain until he expiated his disgrace by dying a hero at Plataea.• He can be redeemed, he can confess his sins, he can expiate his guilt.• But it helps to expiate our imagined sins if we have a bogeyman to hand, a Drug Baron.• As he walked he pondered dully on the crime he was trying to expiate, the murder of Clare's happiness.• Possessing no ecclesiastic franchise, they expiate their grief by posting an InMemoriam notice.Origin expiate (1500-1600) Latin past participle of expiare, from pius; → PIOUSex·pi·ate verbChineseSyllable sorry you have Corpus are to for something show done you |
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