音标:['ekspieit] ;
vt. 补偿, 赎
vi. 抵偿, 赎罪
v. make amends for
词型变化:过去式 : expiated ; 过去分词 : expiated ; 现在分词 : expiating ; 第三人称单数 : expiates ; 名词复数形式 : expiates
考试类型:[GRE]
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expiate的用法和样例:

例句

用作动词(v.)
  1. He had a chance to confess and expiate his guilt.他有认错和赎罪的机会。
  2. He hoped to expiate his guilt.他希望为他的过失赎罪。

经典引文

  • His father's heresies..would sooner or later have to be expiated.

    出自:P. Ustinov
【近义词】

My glass shall not persuade me I am old, 镜子无法使我相信你已衰老, So long as youth and thou are of one date, 只要你和青春还是同道, But when in thee Time's furrows I behold, 但当我看见你脸上的皱纹, Then look I d

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