ARBUTHNOT. I will not. You talk of atonement for a wrong done. What atonement can be made to me? There is no atonement possible. I am disgraced: he is not. That is all. It is the usual history of a man and a woman as it usually happens, as it always happens.英文原著 · 《A Woman of No Importance》
Atone. Atone for. Shakespeare uses the verb transitively several times, but in the sense of reconcile; as in Rich. 202: "Since we cannot atone you," etc. 735 below.英文原著 · 《The Lady of the Lake》
"Athens confesses that your merit was overlooked, and wishes to atone, and more than atone, for her forgetfulness," said the second senator.英文原著 · 《Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare》
<85.3> A crime, from the Latin PIACULUM which, from meaning properly AN ATONEMENT, was afterwards used to express WHAT REQUIRED an atonement, i.e. an offence or sin.英文原著 · 《Lucasta》
"Thou guiltless but unhappy woman! unhappy by my crimes!" replied Manfred, "my heart at last is open to thy devout admonitions. could - but it cannot be - ye are lost in wonder - let me at last do justice on myself! To heap shame on my own head is all the satisfaction I have left to offer to offended heaven. My story has drawn down these judgments: Let my confession atone - but, ah! what can atone for usurpation and a murdered child? a child murdered in a consecrated place? List, sirs, and may this bloody record be a warning to future tyrants!"英文原著 · 《The Castle of Otranto》
"Dear God!" she cried, bursting into tears, "Thou hearest! Has he been worthy of the prayers and penance I have lived in, wearing myself out to atone for his sins and my own?--Of what avail is virtue?"英文原著 · 《A Second Home》
You did what you did, you got your money, but no amount I give to charity will help me atone for the ass fucking I will give you in this business.美剧 · 《Billions》
I respect that she wants to atone in person, even though it's taken her over 16 hours to build up the courage.美剧 · 《House of Cards》
I call it atonement, and today's the day you face the music.美剧 · 《Suits》
Maybe she shouldn't be condemned to the walk of atonement for one mistake?美剧 · 《The Good Doctor》