expiate

基本词汇

英 [ˈekspieɪt]

美 [ˈɛkspiˌet]

v.赎罪；补偿；结束

名词: expiator 过去式: expiated 过去分词: expiated 现在分词: expiating 第三人称单数: expiates

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v.(动词)

verb

1. make amends for

e.g. expiate one's sins

Synonym: abyabyeatone

1. 赎（罪);抵偿;补偿
If you expiate guilty feelings or bad behaviour, you do something to indicate that you are sorry for what you have done.

e.g. It seemed that Alice was expiating her father's sins with her charity work.
似乎艾丽斯正在通过自己的慈善工作来弥补父亲的罪过。

expiation
...an often painful process of evaluation and expiation.
常常十分痛苦的评价和赎罪过程

1. 赎罪：Expire:期满,熄灭 | Expiate:赎罪 | Edifice:大厦

2. 补偿：expiable 可赎的 | expiate 补偿 | expiation 赎罪

3. 償：ex cathedra-聖座宣言 | expiate-償う | fornication-姦淫

4. 赎罪,补偿：expertise 专门知识(技能等专家鉴定,评价 | expiate 赎罪,补偿 | expire 满期,到期;断气

His father's heresies..would sooner or later have to be expiated.
出自：P. Ustinov