心裡的那份悔意
這一支停在痛的起點：感覺本身，以及臉上、聲音裡看得出來的那部分。
adjective · C2
Feeling and showing real sorrow for something wrong that you have done, in a serious way, and meaning not to do it again.
悔過的
核心畫面
You can think of penitent as a sore place inside someone who knows they did wrong. The soreness does not just sit there: it pushes the person to do something — to say it out loud, to pay it back, to walk somewhere and down. Every use of the word is a different distance along that push, from the feeling on a face to the person carrying it out in public.
「penitent」可以想成：一個人心裡因為做錯事而有一塊痛的地方。這塊痛不會只待在那裡。它會推著人去做點什麼——把…更多收起
「penitent」可以想成：一個人心裡因為做錯事而有一塊痛的地方。這塊痛不會只待在那裡。它會推著人去做點什麼——把錯說出口、把虧欠補回來、走一段路去跪下。這個字的每一個用法，都是沿著這股推力停在不同的距離：有的停在臉上的表情，有的走到了公開的行動，有的落在告解時那個固定的角色上。From the word’s history
From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin paenitens (penitent), the present participle of paeniteo (to cause to repent; to regret, repent) — literally 'regretting', a feeling caught in the middle of happening.
經過中古英語、古法文，來自拉丁文 paenitēns，那是動詞 paeniteō（使人後悔、懊悔）的現在分詞，字面上是「正在後悔的」。現在分詞這個形式本身就帶著「進行中」的味道，跟這個字「心裡的痛還在推著人」的畫面正好吻合。
Wiktionary entries for penitent, adjective and noun (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:527836777 and :527847478), supplied in this packet
Two branches
把悔意做出來的那個人
痛推著人動起來之後，這個字就從形容感覺變成指那個正在做事的人。
noun · C2
A person who is doing penance: someone who has admitted doing wrong, usually in a religious setting, and is carrying out an act of sorrow that the church has set — a prayer, a piece of work, or a long walk.
懺悔者