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单词 repentance
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repentance
noun[U]
uk
/rɪˈpen.təns/us
/rɪˈpen.təns/
thefactofshowingthat you are verysorryfor somethingbadyou have done in the past, andwishthat you had not done it:
悔恨
This was anextremelyviolentcrime, for which theboyshowedno repentance.这是一起极其暴力的罪行，男孩对此毫无悔意。
Herpassionaterepentance for hersinsisreal.她对自己罪过的积极悔改是诚心诚意的。
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More examples
  • Hepreachedrepentance andforgiveness.
  • Theyexpressedrepentance fortheiractions.
  • If there is notruerepentance,criminalswillcommitthe samecrimesagain.
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Making & accepting apologies
(Definition ofrepentancefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofrepentance

repentance
Converts preached publicly, orally, about private wrongs, calling impotent, beery men torepentance.
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This condition would depend on the free response, ofrepentance, of wrongdoers.
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Is it possible to generate these two effects even in the absence ofrepentanceor the victim's opportunity to observe the perpetrator's change of life?
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This paper identifies two others: ' justifications', for behaviour that associated with weight gain, and 'repentance', for behaviour that reaffirmed a commitment to losing weight.
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But thisrepentanceitself requires that we do what we can to deal with the wrongs we do to other human beings.
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A positive dimension of this is that there is always the possibility ofrepentance.
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Therepentanceexplanation was not, however, the dominant hypothesis which twelfth-century theologians and canonists used to resolve the contradiction.
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Ourrepentancecould properly be seen merely as an occasion for this forgiveness, not a cause of it.
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Thus,repentancedoes two things that make forgiveness possible.
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Of course, the debtor exposes himself as a shyster, and we quickly learn of the son's repeated attempts, and failures, atrepentance.
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Repentancecan be much more difficult than maturing.
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Repentanceis sufficient to remove a bad intention.
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It seems to me that appropriate reparation in such cases is merely apology, where such apology of course presupposes genuinerepentance.
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Clearly, the real difficulty here lies inrepentance, not in apology.
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Andrepentancewas the end of the deed.
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