pecado
sin ; wrongdoing.
Books were kept for historical records of deeds done by the inhabitants: their worthy acts as well as their sins.
His doctrine that even venial wrongdoing is worse than any natural calamity implies that we ought to refrain from such wrongdoing even if calamity results.
Ciudad del Pecado
Sin City
Sin City is a bustling, violent metropolis where the police department is as corrupt as the streets are deadly.
cometer un pecado
commit + sin
sin
According to Shakespeare's age, if she had agreed, she would have committed a mortal sin and been in danger of hell.
Some men, by continual sinning, sear even the conscience as with a hot iron, so that it becomes dead and past feeling.
pecado mortal
deadly sin
mortal sin
Two of the 'deadly sins' of a contemporary librarian would be a preference to work 'in silence', i.e. no contact with users and no advertising, and put on blinkers, i.e. no research and no analysis of the librarian's work.
According to Shakespeare's age, if she had agreed, she would have committed a mortal sin and been in danger of hell.
pecado original, el
original sin, the
The article is entitled 'Born yesterday and other forms of original sin: two perspectives on library research'.
pecado venial
venial sin
The Catholic concept of purgatory, a place where the expiation of venial sins was to take place, developed during the twelfth century.
siete pecados capitales, los
seven deadly sins, the
The seven deadly sins are 'pride, avarice, envy, wrath, lust, gluttony, and sloth/acedia'.
siete pecados mortales, los
seven deadly sins, the
The seven deadly sins are 'pride, avarice, envy, wrath, lust, gluttony, and sloth/acedia'.
vivir en (el) pecado
live in + sin
In the 1970s it was called 'living in sin' but the couples who flouted convention back then mostly married each other before two years were up.
