The penitential den once set apart for interviews with the House, was now the news-Exchange, and was filled to overflowing.

忏室曾经专门用众议院的采访，现在是新闻交流中心，人满为患。

If they would serve their fellow-men, let them do it by making manifest the power and reality of conscience, in constraining them to penitential self-abasement!

如果他们愿意为他们的同胞服务，就让他们通过彰显良心的力量和现实做到这点，迫使他们忏自卑！

Mr. Bulstrode paused. He felt that he was performing a striking piece of scrupulosity in the judgment of his auditor, and a penitential act in the eyes of God.

布尔斯特罗德先生停顿了下。他觉得自己在审计员的判断中表现得非常谨慎，在上帝眼中是种忏行为。

As soon as I arrived, I sent a penitential codfish and barrel of oysters to Joe (as reparation for not having gone myself), and then went on to Barnard's Inn.

我到，就送了条忏的鳕鱼和桶牡蛎给乔（作为对我没有去的补偿），然后继续前往巴纳德旅馆。

In three minutes the Vicar was on horseback again, having gone magnanimously through a duty much harder than the renunciation of whist, or even than the writing of penitential meditations.

三分钟后，牧师又骑在马背上，慷慨地完成了项比放弃惠斯特，甚至比写忏冥想还要艰难得多的职责。

Penitential colours—less like something she'd chosen to put on than like something she'd been locked up in. Her solemn half-smile; the amazed lift of her eyebrows, as if she were admiring the view.

那是衣着的颜色——与其说是她自己选择了这样的颜色，倒不如说是她被关在这种颜色里。还有她那本正经的似笑非笑、她那被逗乐的扬眉，似乎她在欣赏美景。

It says that if someone is found murdered outside a town the elders of the nearest town have to undergo a penitential ritual and say a prayer for absolution that contains the words, “Our hands did not shed this blood.”

如果有人在座城镇外被谋杀，那么，最近的城镇中的长必须进行忏仪式，并用下面的话语祈求宽恕：“我们的双手没有沾染鲜血。”

But Mr. Bulstrode had to-night followed the order of his emotions; he entertained no doubt that the opportunity for restitution had come, and he had an overpowering impulse towards the penitential expression by which he was deprecating chastisement.

但是布尔斯特罗德先生今晚不得不顺从他的情绪。他毫不怀疑，赔偿的机会已经到，他对他反对惩罚的忏表达产生了种压倒性的冲动。