Contrition

(n.) The act of grinding or ribbing to powder; attrition; friction; rubbing.

(n.) The state of being contrite; deep sorrow and repentance for sin, because sin is displeasing to God; humble penitence; through repentance.

汉丽埃塔整理

• Such little actions, slight in another man, were very noticeable in him; and his daughter received them as if they had been words of contrition. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• It was necessary for her mistress to comfort her--which she did, I must say, with a good deal of contrition--before she could be got beyond this. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Since the Pegler affair, this gentlewoman had covered her pity for Mr. Bounderby with a veil of quiet melancholy and contrition. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• The self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a guilty one. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• His face expressed contrition and indecision as he asked: 'Have I injured you so much, Lizzie? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Concession, contrition, never do any good with some people. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• And I said, Miss;' here Sissy fairly sobbed as confessing with extreme contrition to her greatest error; 'I said it was nothing. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• It was hammering now in the roar and he could not remember the act of contrition. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• He owned with contrition that his irregularities and his extravagance had already wasted a large part of his mother's little fortune. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

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