conscience

英 [ˈkɒnʃəns]

美 [ˈkɑːnʃəns]

n.  良心; 良知; 内疚; 愧疚; 凭良心

复数：consciences　

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习惯用语

n.

in (all/good) conscience
• （认为行为）公正地，公平地，凭良心
  believing your actions to be fair
• We cannot in all conscience refuse to help.
  凭良心我们不能拒绝去帮助别人。
on your conscience
• 使人内疚；良心不安
  making you feel guilty for doing or failing to do sth
• I'll write and apologize. I've had it on my conscience for weeks.
  我要写信赔礼道歉。几个星期以来我都为此而良心不安。
prick your conscienceyour conscience pricks you
• 唤醒良心；受到良心谴责
  to make you feel guilty about sth; to feel guilty about sth
• Her conscience pricked her as she lied to her sister.
  她对姐姐撒谎时良心上感到很不安。

牛津词典

noun

• 良心；良知
  the part of your mind that tells you whether your actions are right or wrong
  1. to have a clear/guilty conscience (= to feel that you have done right/wrong)
     问心无愧 / 有愧
  2. This is a matter of individual conscience (= everyone must make their own judgement about it) .
     这关系个人的良知。
  3. He won't let it trouble his conscience.
     他不会让这件事搞得自己良心不安。
• 内疚；愧疚
  a guilty feeling about sth you have done or failed to do
  1. She was seized by a sudden pang of conscience.
     她突然感到一阵内疚。
  2. I have a terrible conscience about it.
     我对此事深感愧疚。
• 凭良心
  the fact of behaving in a way that you feel is right even though this may cause problems
  1. freedom of conscience (= the freedom to do what you believe to be right)
     凭良心行事的自由
  2. Emilia is the voice of conscience in the play.
     埃米莉亚在这出戏中是良知的代言人。

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 良心;良知
  Yourconscienceis the part of your mind that tells you whether what you are doing is right or wrong. If you have aguilty conscience, you feel guilty about something because you know it was wrong. If you have aclear conscience, you do not feel guilty because you know you have done nothing wrong.
  1. I have battled with my conscience over whether I should actually send this letter...
     我备受良心的煎熬，不知是否真的应该把这封信寄出去。
  2. What if he got a guilty conscience and brought it back?...
     要是他觉得内疚，把东西拿回来了怎么办？
  3. I could go away again with a clear conscience.
     我可以问心无愧地再次离开。
• See also:He refused for reasons of conscience to sign a new law legalising abortion....the law on freedom of conscience and religious organizations.prisoner of conscience
• N-UNCOUNT 内疚;良心不安
  Conscienceis a feeling of guilt because you know you have done something that is wrong.
  1. I'm so glad he had a pang of conscience...
     我很高兴他会有负疚感。
  2. They have shown a ruthless lack of conscience.
     他们没有表现出丝毫内疚，实在是太无情了。
• PHRASE 凭良心;出于公道
  If you say that you cannot do somethingin all conscience,in good conscience, orin conscience, you mean that you cannot do it because you think it is wrong.
  1. She could not, in good conscience, back out on her deal with him.
     凭良心她不能背弃与他达成的协议。
• PHRASE 内疚;良心不安
  If you have somethingonyourconscience, you feel guilty because you know you have done something wrong.
  1. Now the murderer has two deaths on his conscience.
     现在，这个杀人犯背着两条人命，受到了良心的谴责。

英英释义

noun

• conformity to one's own sense of right conduct
  1. a person of unflagging conscience
• a feeling of shame when you do something immoral
  1. he has no conscience about his cruelty
• motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions
  Synonym:scruplesmoral sensesense of right and wrong

双语例句

• Has your action never given you a twinge of conscience?
  你做这事不屈心吗？
• She could not, in good conscience, back out on her deal with him.
  凭良心她不能背弃与他达成的协议。
• Now the murderer has two deaths on his conscience.
  现在，这个杀人犯背着两条人命，受到了良心的谴责。
• I can look back on things with a clear conscience. I did everything I could.
  我可以问心无愧地回首过去，我已经尽力了。
• It's pleasing to see some criminals have a conscience.
  看到有些罪犯还有良知让人感到欣慰。
• I give myself treats and justify them to salve my conscience.
  我常犒劳自己一番，然后找个说辞让自已良心稍安。
• But he has sustained his fierce social conscience from young adulthood through old age
  而他从青年时期一直到老年都始终保持着强烈的社会良知。
• I'm so glad he had a pang of conscience
  我很高兴他会有负疚感。
• I've been battling with my conscience for several days, and now I know I have to write to you.
  几天来我一直在与良心搏斗，现在我明白我必须给你写信。
• After he had committed the crime, his conscience was troubled.
  他犯罪后，良心上感到很不安。