| 词汇 | atonement |
| 释义 | atonement noun[ U ] formaluk /əˈtəʊn.mənt/ us /əˈtoʊn.mənt/ something that you do to show that you are sorry for something bad that you did: 赎（罪）;弥补，补偿（过错） He said that young hooligans should do community service as atonement for their crimes.他说，小流氓应该通过参加社区服务的方式赎过。 Making & accepting apologies amends apologetically apologize atone for something beg bury bygone conciliatory crawl crawl back (to someone)idiom cut someone some slackidiom forge ahead forgive penance resolve your differences shred sink your differencesidiom solatium sorry to bother you soz Examples of atonementatonement We can do so by exploring a little more closely the sort of atonement relevant in the case of a failure merely in intention. So there is no need for additional reparation, and the satisfaction theory of the atonement is otiose. Seymour cannot escape the need for a vicarious atonement in order to meet the demands of justice. In this conceptualisation, the purge acted as a means of atonement that would redeem not only the transgressor but the entire community. It can be situated within a romantic sensibility of landscape and represents a qualitative consciousness of atonement and reconciliation of architecture with the land. For perfect removal of guilt, the wrongdoer must make atonement and be forgiven by the victim. Perhaps the only atonement or amends to the victims is this commitment and assurance. Its traditional stress on biblical authority and substitutionary atonement did not slacken. I shall label this alternative theory the merit theory of the atonement. If we choose not to make atonement for hurting others in the only relevant way - namely directly to them - we must live with this failure. If atonement could not blot out the feeling of guilt, forgetfulness might. Inevitably, the day of national atonement always provides a foil for the day of national joy, and vice versa. The thesis that moral faith must take precedence over the historical knowledge of the atonement emphasizes that which is in our power. From eternity, in effect, the demands of justice have been met without the need for a vicarious atonement. Through penance comes redemption, but without atonement the relationships will always be skewed. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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