| 单词 | mea culpa |
| 释义 | mea culpa[ mey-uh -kuhl-puh, mee-uh; Latin me-ah kool-pah ] / ˈmeɪ ə ˈkʌl pə, ˈmi ə; Latin ˈmɛ ɑ ˈkʊl pɑ / SEE SYNONYMS FOR mea culpa ON THESAURUS.COM interjectionmy fault! (used as an acknowledgment of one's responsibility). noun plural me·a cul·pas.an acknowledgment of one's responsibility for a fault or error. Origin of mea culpaFrom Latin: literally “through my fault”; def. 1 was first recorded in 1200–50, and def. 2 in 1815–20; cf. culpa Words nearby mea culpamdse., MDT, me, M.E.A., meacon, mea culpa, mead, Meade, Mead, Margaret, meadow, meadow beauty Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for mea culpamea culpa / Latin (ˈmeɪɑː ˈkʊlpɑː) / an acknowledgment of guilt Word Origin for mea culpaliterally: my fault Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Cultural definitions for mea culpamea culpa [ (may-uh kul-puh, kool-puh) ] An expression from Catholic ritual that assigns blame to oneself: “I gave you the wrong directions to my house — mea culpa.” From Latin, meaning “my fault” or “my blame.” The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |
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