1 N-COUNT [usually singular] [oft poss NOUN, adjective NOUN] 良心;良知 Your conscience is the part of your mind that tells you whether what you are doing is right or wrong. If you have a guilty conscience, you feel guilty about something because you know it was wrong. If you have a clear conscience, you do not feel guilty because you know you have done nothing wrong. 良心;良知
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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。
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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?
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I could go away again with a clear conscience.
我可以问心无愧地再次离开。
2 N-UNCOUNT 信仰;凭良心行事 Conscience is doing what you believe is right even though it might be unpopular, difficult, or dangerous. 信仰;凭良心行事
3See also:prisoner of conscience
4 N-UNCOUNT 内疚;良心不安 Conscience is a feeling of guilt because you know you have done something that is wrong. 内疚;良心不安
5 PHRASE 凭良心;出于公道 If you say that you cannot do something in all conscience ,in good conscience, or in conscience, you mean that you cannot do it because you think it is wrong. 凭良心;出于公道
6 PHRASE 内疚;良心不安 If you have something on your conscience, you feel guilty because you know you have done something wrong. 内疚;良心不安
Quotations
Conscience: the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking H.L. Mencken A Little Book in C Major
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all William Shakespeare Hamlet
Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it Samuel Butler
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