Friday will bring a 5.5-mile run, the extra half-mile my grueling expiation of any gastronomical indulgences during the week.

星期五跑5.5英里，那多出的半英里是对本周自己放纵饮食的赎罪。

youdao

But he did not understand that of these last, that of creatures without reproach and without stain, and he trembled as he asked himself: the expiation of what?

可是他不理解另外那些人的补偿，那些毫无罪愆、毫无污点的人的补偿，他怀着战栗惶恐的心情问道：“补偿什么？”

youdao

And the priest shall make expiation for them, and they will be forgiven.

祭司要为他们遮罪，他们就必蒙赦免。

youdao

For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have assigned it to you for making expiation for your lives upon the altar."

因为活物的生命是在血中，我把这血赐给你们，可以在坛上,为你们的生命赎罪“

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It is the blood as life that effects expiation, purging and atonement.

这血有如生命，可以在赎罪、净化和补偿时起作用。

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Fairchild's bequest for the sermon was an expiation of his sense of guilt.

ECONOMIST: Of a practical nature

Generally, he seems to deploy the concept as expiation for past ideological lapses.

ECONOMIST: Republicans are for states�� rights��when it suits them

Yet, if expiation is impossible, penance is not: they can talk.

NEWYORKER: The Ground Truth