sackcloth and ashes 的定义
- Mourning or penitence, as in What I did to Julie's child was terrible, and I've been in sackcloth and ashes ever since. This term refers to the ancient Hebrew custom of indicating humility before God by wearing a coarse cloth, normally used to make sacks, and dusting oneself with ashes. In English it appeared in William Tyndale's 1526 biblical translations, “They [the cities Tyre and Sidon] had repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.”
sackcloth and ashes 近义词
等同于 penance
sackcloth and ashes 的近义词 25 个
- absolution
- atonement
- contrition
- forgiveness
- penitence
- remorse
- repentance
- retribution
- attrition
- compensation
- compunction
- confession
- expiation
- mortification
- penalty
- punishment
- purgation
- rue
- ruth
- self-flagellation
- shrift
- sorrow
- suffering
- hair shirt
- remorsefulness
sackcloth and ashes 的反义词 3 个
更多sackcloth and ashes例句
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- Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.
- Warm milk mixed with a spoonful of fireplace ashes seemed to also be popular among 19th century England.
- Later that night, that same black-and-red banner would be seen again—in the column of marchers chanting for dead cops.
- She also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.
- He thrust the Cardinal's mantle into it, and stood over the smouldering cloth, till the whole was consumed to ashes.
- No law of that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only in two-and-twenty.
- The Seneschal stood with blanched face and gaping mouth, his fire all turned to ashes before the passion of this gaunt man.
- Mr. Spurrell came down to see a horse, and we shall be very glad to have the benefit of his opinion by-and-by.