1. We must do penance for our sins.
    我们必须苦修赎罪。

1. penance

1. 告解：没有想到,他碰到几位三位一体教会(也就是保罗教会)的传教士,他们对他说,假如他能在他们的教堂中告解(penance)他的罪就可获免. 为了求得良心平安,他乃全力支恃基督教,虽然他仍保持多神教首领(Pontifex Maximus)之头衔.

2. 赎罪：大斋期为信徒们提供了一赎罪(penance)、斋戒(fasting)、自制(self-denial)和忏悔(repentance)的机会,要求信徒们涤净过去一年中的劣行与罪过. 感恩节的起源有一段有趣但很复杂的历史,这一段历史要从英国的宗教史说起. 大约16世纪中叶,

1. 补赎；悔罪；忏悔
    If you do penance for something wrong that you have done, you do something that you find unpleasant to show that you are sorry.

penance的意思

    e.g. ...a time of fasting, penance and pilgrimage...
           斋戒、补赎和朝圣的时代
    e.g. The Koran recommends fasting as a penance before pilgrimages.
           《古兰经》劝告人们在朝圣前斋戒，以作为一种补赎。

1. a Catholic sacrament
    repentance and confession and atonement and absolution

2. voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing

    Synonym: self-mortificationself-abasement

3. remorse for your past conduct

    Synonym: repentancepenitence