| 词汇 | example_english_repentance |
| 释义 | Examples of repentanceThese 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. Converts preached publicly, orally, about private wrongs, calling impotent, beery men to repentance. This condition would depend on the free response, of repentance, of wrongdoers. Is it possible to generate these two effects even in the absence of repentance or the victim's opportunity to observe the perpetrator's change of life? This paper identifies two others: ' justifications', for behaviour that associated with weight gain, and ' repentance ', for behaviour that reaffirmed a commitment to losing weight. But this repentance itself requires that we do what we can to deal with the wrongs we do to other human beings. A positive dimension of this is that there is always the possibility of repentance. The repentance explanation was not, however, the dominant hypothesis which twelfth-century theologians and canonists used to resolve the contradiction. Our repentance could properly be seen merely as an occasion for this forgiveness, not a cause of it. Thus, repentance does two things that make forgiveness possible. Of course, the debtor exposes himself as a shyster, and we quickly learn of the son's repeated attempts, and failures, at repentance. Repentance can be much more difficult than maturing. Repentance is sufficient to remove a bad intention. It seems to me that appropriate reparation in such cases is merely apology, where such apology of course presupposes genuine repentance. Clearly, the real difficulty here lies in repentance, not in apology. And repentance was the end of the deed. Moreover, it is clear that repentance and transformation involve a certain amount of pain. But they are rare and very costly for all parties, in terms of both repentance and forgiveness. Alternatively, we could understand all pleas for mercy as simply ways of formally expressing our repentance and apology. This sort of vigilance and discipline, though, is different from repentance. What is the reason for supposing priority to immutability over repentance? But timing is of the essence when it comes to repentance. We saw above that repentance works in two ways to make forgiveness possible. Since a person's repentance requires that she realize that she herself has offended, nothing lacking a first-person perspective could possibly repent. Themes of shame, immorality, censorship, nonconformity, nonacceptance, and repentance dominate their pages. 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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