n. 赎罪, 补偿

[法] 补偿, 赎回, 赎罪

Atonement \A*tone"ment\, n.
1. (Literally, a setting at one.) Reconciliation; restoration
of friendly relations; agreement; concord. [Archaic]

By whom we have now received the atonement. --Rom.
v. 11.

He desires to make atonement
Betwixt the Duke of Gloucester and your brothers.
--Shak.

2. Satisfaction or reparation made by giving an equivalent
for an injury, or by doing of suffering that which will be
received in satisfaction for an offense or injury;
expiation; amends; -- with for. Specifically, in theology:
The expiation of sin made by the obedience, personal
suffering, and death of Christ.

When a man has been guilty of any vice, the best
atonement be can make for it is, to warn others.
--Spectator.

The Phocians behaved with, so much gallantry, that
they were thought to have made a sufficient
atonement for their former offense. --Potter.

{Day of Atonement} (Jewish Antiq.), the only fast day of the
Mosaic ritual, celebrated on the tenth day of the seventh
month (Tishri), according to the rites described in
Leviticus xvi. Also called {Yom Kippur}.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]