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atone for

/uh-tohn/US // əˈtoʊn //UK // (əˈtəʊn) //

赎罪,代偿,忏悔,赎回

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    a·toned, a·ton·ing.

    • : to make amends or reparation, as for an offense or a crime, or for an offender: to atone for one's sins.
    • : to make up, as for errors or deficiencies: to atone for one's failings.
    • : Obsolete. to become reconciled; agree.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    a·toned, a·ton·ing.

    • : to make amends for; expiate: He atoned his sins.
    • : Obsolete. to bring into unity, harmony, concord, etc.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inrecompense
Synonyms
atone赎罪,忏悔,赎回,赎身balance平衡,平衡性,余额,均衡comp汇编,编制,指南针,压缩compensate赔偿,补偿,弥补,抵偿counterbalance平衡,平衡性,相互平衡,平衡点counterpoise对角线,对立面,反面,对角位countervail反作用,反作用力,抗衡,逆势equalize平衡,扳平,均衡,均分expiate赎罪,赦免,平息,赎回fix修复,固定,修理,修整grease油脂,油腻,油腻的,油烟indemnify赔偿,弥偿,赔款,赔付offset补偿,偏差,弥补,补偿费overcompensate过度补偿,过度赔偿,补偿过高,补偿过多pay支付,支付费用,支付的费用,支付报酬propitiate劝解,劝慰,劝告,劝说reciprocate回报,往复,报答,往复式recoup收回,收回成本,收回资金,收回来recover恢复,复原,复苏,恢复原状redress纠正,补救,补救措施,补救办法reimburse报销,偿付,偿还,偿清remunerate受薪,受酬,受雇于人,付酬repay报答,还款,回报,偿还requite报答,要求,报酬,报偿retaliate报复,还击,复仇,还手retrieve检索,取回,检索出,找回return返回,回归,返还,回返reward奖励,奖赏,报酬,奖金satisfy满足,符合,满意,满足了square正方形,正方形的,正方,正直ante up加注,加钱,加注资金,加注金额cough up咳出,咳咳,咳嗽,咳死了do business做生意,做事,开展业务,经商give satisfaction给予满足,给予满意,满意,感到满意make amends赔礼道歉,补过,赔罪,补足make good抵偿,抵补,抵制,抵御make up for补足,弥补,补上,补pay for支付,付给,付出,缴付put out熄灭,做出了,放出,熄灭的spring for泉水为,泉水为例,泉水sweeten the pot甜言蜜语,甜食,甜蜜蜜,甜蜜蜜的swing for摆动,摆放,挥杆take care of照顾,照顾好,照看,照料

Examples

  • Perhaps all the medals and ceremonies are our constant, insufficient attempt to atone.

  • He insists he is not atoning for his former career in the oil industry.

  • The radicals’ vision of acknowledging the horrors of the past to begin atoning for them carried the day as the Civil War reached its concluding stages.

  • Cynics said he had taken the presidency of the World Bank to atone for his actions as defense secretary.

  • What I did was wrong, and I have been atoning for the last 11 years.

  • You must atone, apologize, and beg forgiveness for the thousands of LGBT lives you have taken.

  • Heracles goes on his twelve labours, not to better mankind, but to achieve immortality and atone for his own sins.

  • We all have a collective responsibility to atone for the actions of the U.S. and Israel in the coming weeks.

  • These “outsiders” are being invited to atone for their sins by leaving the new state.

  • I wondered how many centuries of purgatory it would take to atone for such a sin.

  • Because if that was to atone for man's sin, it was needless, as God could have forgiven man without Himself suffering.

  • The old gentleman, her father, I have heard, used to atone for his weekday sins with his Sunday devotions.

  • He does not like children, and is satisfied to have Amy back, and is trying to atone for his former harshness.

  • "You have been very patient, but no doubt you will find something that will atone for my silence there," she said.

  • It seemed to him as if no punishment or penance could atone for such deception and for so great a crime.