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词汇 atone
释义 atone
verb[ I ]
us/əˈtoʊn/
to do something that shows you are sorry for something bad that you did or for something that you failed to do:
The director of the company has expressed a wish to atone for her past sins.

Examples of atone


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I hope to-day to atone for my misdeeds by speaking at a much shorter length.
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However, as if to atone for being so critical, he takes a different attitude in debates such as these.
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Once a child learns to lead an idle life, no amount of book-learning will atone for the loss to the community.
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I personally have never believed in the idea that there is any ground for atonement, because there has been nothing to atone for.
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Nothing, of course, could atone or will atone, until our programme is complete, for the shortage of war equipment.
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No amount of compensation can fully atone for the loss of such a link if the people are expropriated.
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The only way in which we can atone for the shortcomings of the past is to make certain that we do something effective for the future.
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They are the gentlemen who should persistently appear in sackcloth and ashes, though even then they would not atone for all the sins that we inherited.
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They will have to be very effective recommendations indeed to atone for the total failure of that interim report and the sad waste of time and money it involved.
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We can prevent the sins of the fathers falling on the children economically, even if we cannot atone for the spiritual and moral tragedies of separated homes.
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I pledge to repent and atone for this crime for the rest of my life, she said.
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Wishing to atone for his fault, he takes on his friend's responsibilities and considers his friends sisters as his own sisters.
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To atone for his ten-year absence, he traveled to the mountains to spend time with her while training.
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Akkarat becomes a monk to atone for his failure of protecting the capital.
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I was trying, somehow and again, to atone for my own behavior.
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