Penitent

(noun.) (Roman Catholic Church) a person who repents for wrongdoing (a Roman Catholic may be admitted to penance under the direction of a confessor).

(adj.) feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds .

录入:皮埃尔

• In this place is an altar dedicated to St. Dimas, the penitent thief. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• After a spacebreathless and spent in prayer, a penitent approached the confessional. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• She felt a touch on her arm, and met the penitent eye of Miss Kilroy. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• The matron at the Reformatory had reported her to my lady as a sincerely penitent and thoroughly trustworthy girl. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• He was too penitent, too remorseful. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• But he was very penitent indeed, and in a peculiar way--not in the lump, but by instalments. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Well, then, said Bois-Guilbert, I will speak as freely as ever did doting penitent to his ghostly father, when placed in the tricky confessional. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• I can make no submissionI am grown neither humble nor penitent by what has passed. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• The surprise and its consequences would have been much less disagreeable to me if he had not been penitent. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• He expressed no regret for what he had done which satisfied her; his style was not penitent, but haughty. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• I have seen all sorts, and I have seen you pretty often in season and out of season, abroad and at home, and I never see you so melancholy penitent. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The monk hath some fair penitent to shrive to-night, that he is in such a hurry to depart, said De Bracy. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• It is just leaning down to you, like a black priest to a blacker penitent. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Out of this place she got the crown of thorns, the nails of the cross, the true Cross itself, and the cross of the penitent thief. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The penitent kiss was better than a world of words, and John had her on his knee in a minute, saying tenderly. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Holy men have bidden penitents like you to hasten their path upward by penance, self-denial, and difficult good works. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Thy penitents, father, have made a long shrift--it is the better for them, since it is the last they shall ever make. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.

校对:雷明顿