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shriftn.
1. confession made to a priest忏悔。
△Rom.1.1.163(158):“I would thou wert so happy by thy stay / Tohear true shrift.”i.e. I hope you enjoy such good for-tune by staying. as to hear a truthful confession fromRomeo. 但愿你留在这儿能交好运，听到他的真情吐露。
△Rom.2.4.193(179):“Bid her devise / Some meansto come to shrift this afternoon，”请她今天下午设法出来做忏悔。
△Rom.2.5.66:“Have you got leave to go toshrift to-day?”你今天得到允许去做忏悔吗？
△ Rom.4.2.15: “See where she comes from shrift with merrylook.”看她已经做完忏悔，高高兴兴回来了。
△ R.III.3.4.94(95):“Make a short shrift; he longs to see yourhead.”做个简短的忏悔吧；他正盼望着看你的头呢。
do one's shrift: hear one's confession and give abso-lution,complete one's religious rites听取忏悔并给予赦免，完成宗教仪式。
△3H.VI.3.2.107: “The ghostly fa-ther now hath done his shrift.”i.e. the courtship is over. 现在忏悔神父已经进行完了忏悔仪式。
2. absolution,forgiveness of sin赦罪，免罪。
△Rom.2.3.56:“Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift.”谜一般的忏悔只能得谜一般的赦罪。
3. confessional忏悔室。
△Oth.3.3.24:“His bed shallseem a school,his board a shrift，”他的床将像是学校，他的饭桌像是忏悔室。 |