V-T If you expiate guilty feelings or bad behaviour, you do something to indicate that you are sorry for what you have done. 赎罪 [正式]
It seemed that Alice was expiating her father's sins with her charity work.
看来爱丽丝要用自己的善行来赎她父亲的罪恶。
expiation N-UNCOUNT
...an often painful process of evaluation and expiation.
...一种通常是痛苦的评价和赎罪过程。
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