(verb.) make amends for; 'expiate one's sins'.

校对:鲁珀特

• For my part, there was only one plan to be pursued; I must expiate my culpable vehemence, or I must not sleep that night. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Will she let me expiate these things? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Not in the least: you might expiate your enjoyment of them by founding a hospital. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• 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. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• It will expiate at God's tribunal. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I don't see myself--or you either--offering ourselves up to expiate her crimes. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• I keep it and rear it rather on the Roman Catholic principle of expiating numerous sins, great or small, by one good work. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.

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