请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 hair shirt
释义
hair shirt
Word forms: hair shirts
1. countable noun
A hair shirt is a shirt made of rough uncomfortable cloth which some religious people used to wear to punish themselves.
He was sent barefoot wearing only a hair shirt into the wilderness as a penance.
2. countable noun
If you say that someone is wearing a hair shirt, you mean that they are trying to punish themselves to show they are sorry for something they have done.
No one is asking you to put on a hair shirt and give up all your luxuries.
随便看

 

英语词典包含147115条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/11/15 15:12:47