compunction

英 [kəmˈpʌŋkʃn]

美 [kəmˈpʌŋkʃn]

n.  内疚; 愧疚

复数：compunctions　

GRETEM8

BNC.23676 / COCA.27278

牛津词典

noun

• 内疚；愧疚
  a guilty feeling about doing sth
  1. She felt no compunction about leaving her job.
     她对自己的辞职一点儿也不感到懊悔。
  2. He had lied to her without compunction.
     他向她撒了谎却毫无愧疚。
  3. She has no compunctions about rejecting the plan.
     她对拒绝那个计划丝毫也不后悔。

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 内疚;愧疚
  If you say that someonehas no compunction aboutdoing something, you mean that they do it without feeling ashamed or guilty.
  1. He has no compunction about relating how he killed his father.
     他在讲述自己杀害父亲的过程时，没有感到丝毫的内疚。

英英释义

noun

• a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed)
  Synonym:remorseself-reproach

双语例句

• But whenever it was possible to send a house-serf for a soldier in place of a peasant, he did so without the smallest compunction.
  只有在可以用家奴代替农民去当兵的时候，他就会毫不犹豫地派家奴去当兵。
• She kept us waiting without the slightest compunction.
  她一直让我们等着却毫无歉意。
• He stole the money without the slightest compunction.
  他偷钱却丝毫不感到良心受谴责。
• He would use it to get what he wanted without compunction if it would help, but not as though he was enamored of it; rather as if he deemed people beneath contempt for being influenced by it.
  倘若必要的话，他会若无其事地运用他的美貌去得到他想得到的东西，不过，他好像并不沉醉于自己的美貌，他似乎认为受自己的美貌影响的是最不足挂齿的。
• Everyone feels guilty from time to time, but being consumed with compunction can suck the joy out of life.
  每个人时不时都会感有内疚，但是被“良心”吃了的话会让你的生活没有快乐。
• He might have spared his compunction, for Catherine had not noticed the lapse.
  不过他也大可不必感到不安，因为凯瑟琳根本没有注意到（他说话的）疏忽。
• But they also feel little compunction about stealing software.
  但他们同时又毫无顾忌地盗窃软件。
• Their lives ended without compunction or qualm.
  他们没有任何愧疚或不安的杀了他们。
• On the night of their return, he went to bed full of compunction.
  抵家的那天晚上，他睡觉时充满了内疚。
• He had lied to her without compunction.
  他向她撒了谎却毫无愧疚。