repent
动词 v.
形容词 adj.
英文释义
动词 v.
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To feel pain, sorrow, or regret for what one has done or omitted to do; the cause for repenting may be indicated with "of".
— Marry in haste, repent at leisure.
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To be sorry for sin as morally evil, and to seek forgiveness; to cease to practice sin and to love.
— ... Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
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To feel pain on account of; to remember with sorrow.
— If Aljunied decides to go that way (to vote for the Workers' Party), well Aljunied has five years to live and repent.
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To be sorry for, to regret.
— I repent my sins.
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To cause to have sorrow or regret.
— at that time she wolde nat, she seyde, for she was syke and myght nat ryde. "That me repentith," seyde the kynge[…].
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To cause (oneself) to feel pain or regret.
— But if that I knewe what his name hight, For clatering of me I would him ſone quight; For his falſe lying, of that I ſpake never, I could make him ſhortly repent him forever: […]
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To change one's mind.
— The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
形容词 adj.
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Creeping along the ground.
— The pennated, repent and ferine entities of the boscage, are ousels, shellducks, […] and ursine quadrupeds.
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
From Middle English repenten, from Old French repentir, from Vulgar Latin *repaenitīre, from Late Latin paenitīre, from Classical Latin paenitēre. Compare Modern French repentir.
词源 2
From Latin rēpēns, present participle of rēpō (“to creep”).
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