expiate

1. V-T If you expiate guilty feelings or bad behaviour, you do something to indicate that you are sorry for what you have done. 贖罪[正式]

It seemed that Alice was expiating her father's sins with her charity work. 看來愛麗絲要用自己的善行來贖她父親的罪惡。

2. expiationN-UNCOUNT

...an often painful process of evaluation and expiation. ...一種通常是痛苦的評價(jià)和贖罪過程。