expiate 是什么意思

	vt. 赎，抵偿，补偿。 expiate oneself 赎罪，偿罪。 expiate sin (a crime) 赎罪，赎前愆。 n. -ation 赎罪，消孽 (expiate of the sins of the dead 超度死者。 in expiate of one's sin 赎罪)。 n. -ator 赎罪者。 adj. -atory 赎罪的。

make amends for; "expiate one''s sins"
同义词：aby, abye, atone,

	1.	Even death would not expiate all his crimes . 死有余辜。
	2.	Now i was to expiate all my offences at the gallows . 现在我将在绞刑架上赎我一切的罪过。
	3.	The latter's yearning to expiate a guilt that was in retrospect vastly exaggerated or nonexistent prolonged the war . 后面这种人急于赎罪的心情把战争拖长了。但回过头来看，这种罪名或者是完全会夸大了，或者根本就不存在。
	4.	Be that as it may. if our good senator was a political sinner, he was in a fair way to expiate it by his night's penance . 不管怎么说，如果我们这位好心的参议员在政治上有罪的话，那么他那天夜晚的苦行也足以抵消他的罪名了。
	5.	It will expiate at god s tribunal 那一切会在上帝的法庭上得到赎罪。
	6.	Blood on their hands ? lt ' s how they expiate their guilt 沾满鲜血的双手？ -就是他们的赎罪方式
	7.	He hoped to expiate his guilt 他希望为他的过失赎罪。
	8.	Expiate , to make amends for hostilities it s easy to see that for me , in reality 化作一颗流星不管飞向哪里我身后有闪烁的回忆
	9.	A state in which the souls of those who have died in grace must expiate their sins 炼狱那些在幸福中死去的人的灵魂必须去赎罪的地方
	10.	The thief expiated his theft by giving back the amount stolen and by reforming 那小偷送回全部偷窃物并改过自新，以为他的偷窃行为赎罪。

expiate是什么意思