atone的意思|atone的解释-里氏词典

atone [ə'ton]

vi. 补偿, 弥补

[法] 赔偿, 补偿, 偿还

He could not avoid having to atone for what he had done.
他干了坏事，免不了要自食其果。
How can I atone for hurting your feelings?
我伤害了你的感情，该怎样来弥补我的过错呢？
You should try to atone for the past.
你应该试著为过去赔罪。

atone

[ verb ]

make amends for

<verb.social>

turn away from sin or do penitence

<verb.emotion>

repent

Atone \A*tone"\, v. t.
1. To set at one; to reduce to concord; to reconcile, as
parties at variance; to appease. [Obs.]

I would do much
To atone them, for the love I bear to Cassio.
--Shak.

2. To unite in making. [Obs. & R.]

The four elements . . . have atoned
A noble league. --Ford.

3. To make satisfaction for; to expiate.

Or each atone his guilty love with life. --Pope.

Atone \A*tone"\ ([.a]*t[=o]n"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Atoned}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Atoning}.] [From at one,, i. e., to be, or
cause to be, at one. See {At one}.]
1. To agree; to be in accordance; to accord. [Obs.]

He and Aufidius can no more atone
Than violentest contrariety. --Shak.

2. To stand as an equivalent; to make reparation,
compensation, or amends, for an offense or a crime.

The murderer fell, and blood atoned for blood.
--Pope.

The ministry not atoning for their former conduct by
any wise or popular measure. --Junius.

Chun returned to the capital from a remote 14th century Buddhist temple in the eastern mountains where he had gone two years ago to atone for past wrongs.
Chun, who stepped down in February at the end of a seven-year term, is expected to apologize to the nation and turn over a portion of his wealth to the government to atone for alleged corruption under his administration.
The second party source said that by giving up most of his wealth, Chun hopes to atone for major financial scandals in which some of his relatives have been implicated.
"The Senate should vote favorably on this proposal and send it back to the House so they may atone for their earlier decision," said Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C.
Ikeda announced Tuesday that he would resign his Parliament seat to atone for "causing troubles" to his Buddhist-affiliated party, which is almost as deeply troubled by the Recruit scandal as the Liberal Democrats.
Nearly 30 years after independence, Zaire says it is time for Belgium to atone for the years it held the West African country as the colony known as the Belgian Congo.
"Some people make snide remarks and say, `He's just trying to atone,"' said Melba F. Coleman, the principal of 102nd Street School in Watts. "I say look at the record.
Officials at Nagoya-based Tokai Bank said Vice Chairman Eikichi Arai would resign this month and top executives would take a six-month pay cut of 20% to 30% to atone for a similar fraud scheme at one of its Tokyo branches.
We may have to go through a few more years of penance to atone for the high borrowing boom conditions of the late 1980s.' THE PRIME minister still does not seem willing to acknowledge what membership of the ERM means.

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