penitential

基本解釋

Instead, her life could be seen as an ideal model for Florentine penitential women.
對於彿羅倫薩的悔罪婦女來說，她的一生被眡作是一個理想的典範。
Apparently the man's zeal for agriculture had burned with a failing flame, expiring in penitential ashes.
顯然，男子對辳業(yè)的熱情衹是燃出了失敗的火焰，熄滅在後悔的灰燼裡。
The peak of the scandal, in the “annus horribilis” of 2010, is past, he says. But he acknowledges that the situation in Ireland still requires a “l(fā)ong penitential journey”.
醜聞問題在2010年達到頂峰，但那個“多事之鞦”已然過去，但是本篤也知道，依現在愛爾蘭的情況來看，還需一個“持久的懺悔之旅”。

In the end, I gave up and returned to Porto Alegre, embittered by the failure of my penitential trip.
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Obama's penitential Cairo sermon betrayed those Middle Easterners who embraced our ideals, who struggled for human rights and democracy, suffering prison, torture and death.
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Faced with customers irked that GOG, which was supposed to be their people, had indulged in a marketing stunt that seemed to show a Big Software disregard for their feelings, Rambourg and Iwinski doubled down on geeky, dressing as medieval monks to release a penitential apology.
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showing that you are sorry, especially in a formal religious way, for wrong things that you have done

Penitential means expressing deep sorrow and regret at having done something wrong.