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To expiate a wrong is to show you are truly sorry by accepting punishment, or by doing something hard to make the wrong better. People expiate a sin, a crime, or a guilt. It is an old, formal, often religious word. You will meet it in books, church talk, and stories about shame — not when you bump someone on the MRT and say sorry. Though actually, it is stronger than “say sorry.” Sorry is words. To expiate is to pay, suffer, or repair until the wrong feels answered. Everyday English says make up for it or pay for it; expiate is the heavy name.
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組成From Latin expiātus, past participle of expiō (“atone for”).
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- expiationthe noun: the act of expiating
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
expiateverb/ˈɛk.spi.eɪt/
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To atone or make reparation for.
- The Treasurer obliged himself to expiate the injury.
- At laſt, he diſtinctly pronounced theſe three words, LET THIS EXPIATE! And then, his head ſinking on his pillow, he expired; […]
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To make amends or pay the penalty for.
- He had only to live and expiate in solitude the crimes which he had committed.
- And when it was required of him by the rigid laws of a haphazard justice, which in retrospect seems like every night of the week, he pressed his limp forelock into a filthy washbasin, clutched a tap in each throbbing hand, and expiated a string of crimes he didn't know he had committed until they were thoughtfully explained to him between each stroke by Mr. Willow or his representatives.
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obsoleteTo relieve or cleanse of guilt.
- […] and Epimenides was brought from Crete to expiate the city.
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To purify with sacred rites.
- Neither let there be found in thee any that shal expiate his ſonne, or daughter, making them to paſſe through the fyre: or that demandeth of ſouthſayers, and obſerueth dreames and diuinations, neither let there be a ſorcerer,
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To wind up, bring to an end.
- But when in thee times forrwes I behould, / Then look I death my daies ſhould expiate.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。