Wait. Let me do that for you-- my first act of contrition.

我来帮你吧 作为我的忏悔。

He had not had time in his life to lose any of them, nor even, at the end, to complete an act of contrition.

在他短促的一生中，他还没有时间经历幻想的破灭，甚至到临死之前也没有来得及把忏悔做完。