expiate
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˈek.spi.eɪt]
- 美式音标 [ˈek.spi.eɪt]
- 国际音标 ['ekspieit]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- vt.为（所犯罪过）接受惩罚，赎（罪）
词根记忆
- ex(加强) + pi(神圣的) + ate→使变得非常神圣→补偿
- ex(出) + pi(=pious，虔诚) + ate→虔诚地拿出→补偿
同根派生
- adj性质的同根词
- expiatory：赎罪的；补偿的。
- n性质的同根词
- expiation：补偿；赎罪。
英汉例句
- He had a chance to confess and expiate his guilt.
他有认错和赎罪的机会。 - Even death would not expiate all his crimes.
死有余辜. - Now I was to expiate all my offences at the gallows.
现在我将在绞刑架上赎我一切的罪过. - He had a chance to confess and expiate his guilt.
他有认错和赎罪的机会。 - Even death would not expiate all his crimes.
死有余辜.
词组短语
- Capacitance expiate 电容补偿
- atone expiate 赎罪
- expiate sin 赎罪
- expiate e 赎罪
- expiate a crime 认罪
短语
英英字典
- to show that you are sorry for bad behaviour by doing something or accepting punishment
- If you expiate guilty feelings or bad behaviour, you do something to indicate that you are sorry for what you have done.
- expiation