conscience
noun /ˈkɒnʃəns/
/ˈkɑːnʃəns/
Idioms - [countable, uncountable] the part of your mind that tells you whether your actions are right or wrong
良心；良知 - to have a clear/guilty conscience (= to feel that you have done right/wrong)
问心无愧／有愧 - This is a matter of individual conscience (= everyone must make their own judgement about it).
这关系到个人的良知。 - He won't let it trouble his conscience.
他不会让这件事搞得自己良心不安的。
Topics Personal qualitiesc1- After the meal she spent a week dieting to salve her conscience.
大吃一顿后，她花了一周时间节食以安慰自己。 - At the end of each day, examine your conscience.
每天结束的时候，扪心自省一下。 - He felt his conscience telling him to apologize.
他感觉良心一直告诉自己去道歉。 - He wrestled with his conscience all night long.
他整晚上都在同自己的良心斗争。 - Her conscience pricked her every time she thought of how cruel she had been to Kirby.
一想到自己对柯比曾经那么残酷，她就内疚心痛。 - Her conscience was bothering her a little.
她的良心使她有点儿不安。 - How can you do your job with a clean conscience?
你怎么能问心无愧地干你的活儿呢？ - I have a clear conscience.
我问心无愧。 - I have only ever followed my conscience.
我不过是一直凭着自己的良心行事罢了。 - I never knew a more tender conscience on every point of duty.
我从没见过对自己职责的方方面面考虑得如此周到细致的人。 - It should be a matter of individual conscience.
这应该是个人良知的问题。 - It's important to let your conscience guide your decisions.
重要的是作决定不违背良心。 - My conscience dictates that I resign.
良心驱使我辞职。 - She refused to listen to the voice of conscience.
她拒绝听从良心的召唤。 - To clear my conscience and make it up to you, I'd like to take you out to dinner.
为了消除我的内疚并补偿你，我想带你出去吃饭。 - a bill which has shocked the conscience of every middle-class community
震惊了每个中产阶级社区良知的法案 - a dying man with a guilty conscience
心怀愧疚的垂死之人 - a government with no social conscience
一个没有社会公德的政府 - a seminal conference on religious conscience and poverty
一个有重大影响力的关于宗教良知与贫困的会议 - consumers with an environmental conscience
有环境意识的消费者 - the collective conscience of American business
美国企业的集体良知 - His decision appears to have been an act of conscience.
他的决定看起来是有良知的行为。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- clean
- clear
- easy
- …
- have
- appease
- assuage
- …
- guide somebody/something
- tell somebody something
- bother somebody
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- on your conscience
- an act of conscience
- an attack of conscience
- a crisis of conscience
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- to have a clear/guilty conscience (= to feel that you have done right/wrong)
- [uncountable, countable] a guilty feeling about something you have done or failed to do
内疚；愧疚 - She was seized by a sudden pang of conscience.
她突然感到一阵内疚。 - I have a terrible conscience about it.
我对此事深感愧疚。
- He had no conscience about taking his brother's money.
他对拿哥哥的钱一点儿也不觉得内疚。 - Best came forward because of an attack of conscience.
因为良心发现贝斯特站了出来。 - I had a sudden pang of conscience that I really ought to tell the truth.
我突然感到一阵内疚，觉得确实应该说出真相。 - We assuaged our conscience by telling ourselves that they would be worse off without us.
为了使良心好过，我们对自己说没有我们他们会更糟糕。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- clean
- clear
- easy
- …
- have
- appease
- assuage
- …
- guide somebody/something
- tell somebody something
- bother somebody
- …
- on your conscience
- an act of conscience
- an attack of conscience
- a crisis of conscience
- …
- She was seized by a sudden pang of conscience.
- [uncountable] the fact of behaving in a way that you feel is right even though this may cause problems
凭良心 - freedom of conscience (= the freedom to do what you believe to be right)
凭良心行事的自由 - Emilia is the voice of conscience in the play.
埃米莉亚在这出戏中是良知的代言人。
- How could people of conscience allow this to happen?
有良知的人怎么能容许这样的事情发生？ - individual rights and rights of conscience on our campuses of higher education
我们高校校园内的个人权利和信仰权利
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- clean
- clear
- easy
- …
- have
- appease
- assuage
- …
- guide somebody/something
- tell somebody something
- bother somebody
- …
- on your conscience
- an act of conscience
- an attack of conscience
- a crisis of conscience
- …
- freedom of conscience (= the freedom to do what you believe to be right)
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’.
Idioms
in (all/good) conscience
- (formal) believing your actions to be fair
（认为行为）公正地，公平地，凭良心 - We cannot in all conscience refuse to help.
凭良心我们不能拒绝去帮助别人。
- We cannot in all conscience refuse to help.
on your conscience
- making you feel guilty for doing or failing to do something
使人内疚；良心不安 - I'll write and apologize. I've had it on my conscience for weeks.
我要写信赔礼道歉。几个星期以来我都为此而良心不安。 - It’s still on my conscience that I didn’t warn him in time.
我没有及时警告他，这仍然是我的良心。
Topics Feelingsc2- It was on his conscience that he hadn't called her.
他因没给她打电话而愧疚不安。 - I'm sure she has something on her conscience.
我肯定她心里有什么事儿让她良心不安。
- I'll write and apologize. I've had it on my conscience for weeks.
prick your conscience | your conscience pricks you
- to make you feel guilty about something; to feel guilty about something
唤醒良心；受到良心谴责 - Her conscience pricked her as she lied to her sister.
她对姐姐撒谎时良心上感到很不安。
- Her conscience pricked her as she lied to her sister.