愧疚的愉悦guilty pleasures（shrive听忏悔忏悔赎罪）

Word of the Day：May 10, 2021

shrive

听忏悔；忏悔赎罪

verb SHRYV

Definition

1：to administer the sacrament of reconciliation to

执行调解的圣礼

2：to free from guilt

从罪恶中解脱

Examples

"Once every three months, Pancho took his savings and drove into Monterey to confess his sins, to do his penance, and be shriven and to get drunk, in the order named." — John Steinbeck, The Pastures of Heaven, 1932

“每隔三个月，潘乔就会带着他的积蓄开车到蒙特雷按部就班地认罪，赎罪，忏悔，然后喝个烂醉。

"Each Saturday he confessed humbly at St Francis' Church, then shrived penitents for long hours at the cathedral, never stinting his homilies." — James Griffin, The Australian Dictionary of Biography, 1986

每逢星期六他都会在圣方济各教堂恭敬地忏悔，然后在教堂里长时间地为忏悔者忏悔，从不吝惜圣经讲道。”

Did You Know?

We wouldn't want to give the history of shrive short shrift, so here's the whole story. It began when the Latin verb scribere (meaning "to write") found its way onto the tongues of certain Germanic peoples who brought it to Britain in the early Middle Ages. Because it was often used for laying down directions or rules in writing, Old English speakers used their form of the term, scrīfan, to mean "to prescribe or impose." The Church adopted scrīfan to refer to the act of assigning penance to sinners and, later, to hearing confession and administering absolution. Today shrift, the noun form of shrive, makes up half of "short shrift," a phrase meaning "little or no attention or consideration." Originally, "short shrift" was the barely adequate time for confession before an execution.

我们不想给sheive的历史一个短暂的shrift，所以这里有整个的故事。Sheive开始于拉丁语动词 scribere (意为“ to write「写」”) 进入某些日耳曼的语言中，并在中世纪早期被带入英国。因为它经常被用来制定写作方向或写作规则，Old English speakers 使用这个术语 scrīfan 来表示“to prescribe or impose「规定或推行；迫使」”。教会采用 scrīfan 指的是指定罪人忏悔的行为，后来，听忏悔和执行赦免。今天，shrift 是 shrive 的名词形式，“short shrift”占了的一半，这个短语意思是“little or no attention or consideration「很少或没有注意或没有考虑」”。起初，“short shrift”指的是处决前没有足够的忏悔时间。

Word Family Quiz

What relative of the Latin verb scribere can mean "to enroll into service" or "to draft"?