amends
/əˈmɛndz/ 名词 C1中文： 赔偿、补偿、赔罪
- Compensation for an injury or loss; recompense; reparation. · Amends were made for the damage and no charges were filed.· No amends were forthcoming even after we'd proven they were in the wrong.
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“I do not know how you will ever make him amends for his kindness; or me either, for that matter.
I cannot be otherwise than concerned at being the means of injuring your amiable daughters, and beg leave to apologize for it, as well as to assure you of my readiness to make them every possible amends; but of this hereafter.
“There is some sense in what he says about the girls, however; and, if he is disposed to make them any amends, I shall not be the person to discourage him.”
This was his plan of amends--of atonement--for inheriting their father’s estate; and he thought it an excellent one, full of eligibility and suitableness, and excessively generous and disinterested on his own part.
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