atone
单词辨析：
指因使他人受到伤害、损失等而给予赔偿，也指对某事的不良影响进行弥补，常后接介词 for。
The lawyer said she should be compensated for the sufferings.
律师说，她应该为所遭受的痛苦得到赔偿。
Survivors were given $30,000 each to help compensate for their losses.
幸存者每人得到3万美元，作为对他们所受损失的补偿。
Her intelligence compensates for her lack of experience.
她的聪明才智弥补了她的经验不足。
指弥补过错或赎罪，常后接介词 for。
He felt he had atoned for his sins.
他觉得他已赎罪了。
He is anxious to atone for his neglect.
他急切地想弥补自己的疏忽之过。
主要指偿还所欠债务，也指对事情进行补救。
redeem a loan/mortgage
还清贷款/按揭贷款
The single redeeming feature of your behaviour is that you're not denying it.
你的行为的唯一可取之处就是你没有对此否认。
相关例句：
For all that I have done, I am so sorry. I have a lot to atone for.
我有很漫长的一段路要走，但我已经向正确的方向迈出了第一步。
How can you expect to atone for leaving so large a part of your work undone?
你把工作留下那么多没做，你怎么能补救得了呢？
My father always cherished the idea that he would atone for his error by leaving his possessions to us.
我父亲一直抱着这样的想法，以为他会把财产留给我们，来弥补他的过错。
Voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing.
为了弥补一些不正当的行为自愿进行的自我处罚。
He atoned by apologizing
他道歉赔罪。
She often jokes about how she may end up having Ti atone for not believing in god.
常常开玩笑说她最终可能要为不信仰上帝而赎罪。