【每日一词】 expiate - v. 赎罪；补偿

expiate

　　Definition:

　　transitive verb

　　1a: to make amends for

　　permission to expiate their offences by their assiduous labours

　　—Francis Bacon

　　1b: to extinguish the guilt incurred by

　　2 obsolete : to put an end to

　　intransitive verb : to make expiation

　　Synonyms

　　atone (for),mend,redeem

　　短语

　　atone expiate: 赎罪

　　expiate sin: 赎罪

　　expiate a crime: 认罪

　　Capacitance expiate: 电容补偿

　　accept and expiate: 接受与阐释

　　expiate one's guilt: 赎罪

　　to expiate a crime: 赎罪

　　Examples of expiate in a Sentence

　　Yom Kippur is the holy day on which Jews are expected to expiate sins committed during the past year.

　　Recent Examples on the Web

　　The Sisters have come a long way, but never strayed from their mission: to promulgate universal joy and expiate stigmatic guilt.

　　—Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2023

　　But now Epstein, 49, is wearing a different hat, and hoping to expiate his unintended sins against a sport that has been his lifelong passion.

　　—David Axelrod, CNN, 1 Apr. 2023

　　In the former category are Ani (Katy Sullivan), who lost her legs in a car accident, and her ex-husband Eddie (David Zayas), a good-natured, unemployed truck driver who insists on caring for Ani, possibly to expiate his guilt over cheating on her when they were married.

　　—Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Oct. 2022