词汇释义
expiate TEM8 GRE
UK /ˈek.spi.eɪt/ US /ˈek.spi.eɪt/
verb, If you expiate guilty feelings or bad behaviour, you do something to indicate that you are sorry for what you have done.赎[罪)，抵偿，补偿
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外刊例句
1.As the two sisters waited for their father’s return, in the care of an aunt, they were forced to expiate the sins of their deceased mother.(The New YorkerJ)
2. The appropriation of natural goodness by corporate brands allows us to expiate our guilt for participating in the system.(Washington Post)
3. Nor is it easy to fathom how he persisted through the mass bloodshed needed to both preserve the nation and expiate the American sin of slavery without succumbing to paralyzing depression.(Washington Post)
4. The basis of this belief is that sins of the participants are transferred to the unfortunate chicken whose sacrifice then expiates said sins.(Washington Post)
5. Some people say Palermo is now in a sort of purgatory, still to expiate all its sins.(The Guardian)
6.The idea of national self-preservation at all costs will always be debatable in a country seeking to expiate an inexpiatable sin.(Wall Street Journal)
7. Most outgoing employers expiate their guilt with reference letters so lavish that they qualify as fiction.(The New Yorker)
8. Farouk eventually settles in Ireland, and his narrative is braided with the stories of two other shattered men there: Lampy, young and lovelorn, and John, frantically expiating for a life of violence.(New York Times)
9. She helps him expiate his guilt by contextualizing it in the story of his people.(Los Angeles Times)
10. The ethical ambiguity of Szmul’s role as Sonderkommando — a “gray zone,” as Primo Levi described it, victim verging on perpetrator — is expiated to a degree by an act of self-sacrifice.(Washington Post)
11. As midnight approached, we joined the crowds flocking to temples and shrines to hear bells toll 108 times, a Buddhist New Year’s Eve ritual meant to expiate humankind’s 108 sins.(New York Times)
12. Whether it is expiated by Romeo and Juliet or the Fifth Symphony is a matter of taste.(The Guardian)
词汇搭配
expiate sin
词汇家族
expiable, expiatory, expiation, expiator, expiates, expiating, expiated
词汇来源
c. 1600 (OED 2nd ed. print entry has a typographical error in the earliest date), from Latin expiatus, past participle of expiare "to make amends, atone for" .
近义词
atone (for), mend, redeem, offset, amend, appease, compensate, correct, excuse, purge, recompense, rectify, remedy
反义词
blame, charge, damage, forfeit, harm, injure, lose, punish, worsen
