expiate

• vt. 贖罪；補償
• vi. 贖罪；補償

ex-, 外の、ここでは強調形。-本来は宗教的な敬虔さ、過ちを償うこと、神の許しを請うことを意味する。後に一般化した。

expiate

expiate: see pious

expiate (v.)

c. 1600 (OED 2nd ed. print entry has a typographical error in the earliest date), from Latin expiatus, past participle of expiare "to make amends, atone for" (see expiation). Related: Expiable (1560s); expiated; expiating.

1. He had a chance to confess and expiate his guilt.

彼には過ちを認め、罪を償う機会がある。

2.Even death would not expiate all his crimes.

余罪がある。

3.Now I was to expiate all my offences at the gallows.

今私は絞首刑台の上で私のすべての罪を償う。

4.He tried to expiate his crimes by giving money to the church.

彼は教会に寄付して罪を償う。

5.I do not wish to expiate ，but to live.

罪を償いたくない、ただ生きたいだけ。