| 释义 |
conscience/ˈkɒnʃ(ə)ns/n. 1 a moral sense of right and wrong esp. as felt by a person and affecting behaviour (尤指感觉到或影响行为的)良心，道德心；是非感 my conscience won't allow me to do that 我的良心不允许我那样做 2 an inner feeling as to the goodness or otherwise of one's behaviour 内心，意识 my conscience is clear 我问心无愧; has a guilty conscience 感到内疚 □ for conscience (or conscience') sake to satisfy one's conscience 为了良心上过得去 □ in all conscience colloq. by any reasonable standard; by all that is fair [口]凭良心说；公平地说 □ on one's conscience causing one feelings of guilt 引起悔恨(或内疚)的 □ conscienceless adj.[earlier in the sense ‘inner thoughts or knowledge’, Middle English via Old French from Latin conscientia, from conscire ‘be privy to’ (as COM-, scire ‘know’)] |