conscience
/ˈkɒnʃəns/noun
- an inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one's behaviour良心, 良知; 道德心：
he had a guilty conscience about his desires
他对自己的欲望感到内疚
mass noun Ben was suffering a pang of conscience.本正受到良心的谴责。
短语
in(all) conscience
- given the fact that this is probably wrong; in fairness凭良心; 公正地：
how can we in all conscience justify the charging of fees for such a service?
我们怎么才能凭良心证明为这种服务收费是合理的？
on one's conscience
- weighing heavily and guiltily on one's mind令人感到内疚; 受到良心谴责：
an act of providence had prevented him from having a death on his conscience.
天意阻止了他因良心谴责而自杀。
派生词
conscienceless
adjective词源
Middle English （also in the sense 'inner thoughts or knowledge'）： via Old French from Latin conscientia, from conscient- 'being privy to', from the verb conscire, from con- 'with' + scire 'know'.