the ideas and feelings you have that tell you whether something you are doing is right or wrong 良心；良知 | Each person must vote according to his or her own conscience. 每个人都应当按照自己的良心投票。 |
| The decision must be a matter of individual conscience. 这个决定的作出一定是出于个人的良知。 |
| guilty conscience (=a bad feeling because you have done something wrong) It’ s hard to imagine how people live with a guilty conscience. 内疚；愧疚 |
| clear conscience (=the knowledge that you have done nothing wrong) We want to leave with a clear conscience, knowing we did the job right. 问心无愧 |
| struggle/wrestle with your conscience After a night of wrestling with his conscience, he decided to go to the police. 和自己的良心作了一夜的斗争之后，他决定去警察局自首。 |
| ease sb’ s conscience People give a few pounds to charity in order to ease their consciences. 人们为慈善事业捐出几英镑，以使自己在良心上得到安宁。 |
| | a | the ideas and principles of moral behaviour that the members of a community or group share （社区、群体成员的）道德意识 | | Discrimination is a problem that’ s been troubling America’ s social conscience for years. 歧视是多年来困扰美国社会道德意识的一个问题。 | |