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expiate

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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.爲（所犯罪過）接受懲罸，贖（罪）

词根记忆

  • ex(加強) + pi(神聖的) + ate→使變得非常神聖→補償
  • ex(出) + pi(=pious，虔誠) + ate→虔誠地拿出→補償

同根派生

  • adj性質的同根詞
    expiatory：贖罪的；補償的。
  • n性質的同根詞
    expiation：補償；贖罪。

英汉例句

  • He had a chance to confess and expiate his guilt.
    他有認錯和贖罪的機會。
  • Even death would not expiate all his crimes.
    死有餘辜.
  • Now I was to expiate all my offences at the gallows.
    現在我將在絞刑架上贖我一切的罪過.
  • He had a chance to confess and expiate his guilt.
    他有認錯和贖罪的機會。
  • Even death would not expiate all his crimes.
    死有餘辜.

词组短语

    短語

  • Capacitance expiate 電容補償
  • atone expiate 贖罪
  • expiate sin 贖罪
  • expiate e 贖罪
  • expiate a crime 認罪

英英字典

    劍橋英英字典

  • to show that you are sorry for bad behaviour by doing something or accepting punishment

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • If you expiate guilty feelings or bad behaviour, you do something to indicate that you are sorry for what you have done.
  • expiation