sackcloth and ashes

" What does he put sackcloth and ashes on his head for?" inquired Huck.

哈克问：他们头上缠粗麻布、抹着灰干嘛？

Widows in equatorial Africa actually wear sackcloth and ashes when attending a funeral.

赤道非洲的寡妇参加葬礼时居然头上撒灰身穿麻衣.

Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to read sackcloth and ashes under him?

岂是叫人垂头像苇子，用麻布和炉灰铺在他以下吗。

I thought that he'd posted the letter, but a week later he came to me in sackcloth and ashes to say that he'd found it still in his pocket.

我以为他早就把信寄出了，没想到一周后他却哭丧着脸来跟我说，信还在他的口袋里。

Woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

伯赛大阿，你有祸了。因为在你们中间所行的异能，若行在推罗西顿，他们早已披麻蒙灰坐在地上悔改了。

I broke a vase and my wife made me wear sackcloth and ashes for a week!

我打碎了一个花瓶,我妻子让我悲切忏悔了一个星期!

I thought that he had posted the letter, but a week later he come to me in sackcloth and ashes to say that he had found it still in his pocket.

我以为他已把那封信寄走了，但一个星期后他到我时悔恨交加地说，他发现那封信仍在他的口袋里。

He went on about his irresponsible behaviour, the dreadful effect it would have on his children and so on. It was all sackcloth and ashes.

他接着又说到了自己不负责任的行为以及可能对孩子们造成的恶劣影响等等。一时间捶胸顿足，懊悔不已。

" What does he put sackcloth and ashes on his head for? " inquired Huck.

哈克问: “ 他们头上缠粗麻布、抹着灰干嘛? ”

" You're irrepressible,'she said, " I expected to find you in sackcloth and ashes, and silent. "

“ 你无可救药, ” 她说, “ 我原指望见到你满面愁容,一心忏悔, 默默无语. ”

Even bankers are taking off the sackcloth and ashes.

甚至连银行家都不再痛心疾首了。

He repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes for his misdeeds.

他早就悔恨自己的恶行了.

Instead of wearing sackcloth and ashes, Haman had to dress Mordecai in a royal robe.

末底改不用再穿麻衣、蒙灰，哈曼却要为他穿上朝服；