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

• He had lied to her without compunction.
  他向她撒了谎却毫无愧疚。
• Life in the college is colourful and bright, which predicate that when you recall it many years later, there is so many nice memory in your mind and nothing to compunction.
  大学生活是丰富多彩的，这意味着当你多年后再回想起时，原来有如此多美好的记忆，而不为任何的事情忏悔。
• Generally, people in the fashion world feel a compunction to dress up in some way that represents the values they want associated with their brand, much in the way politicians do.
  总体而言，时尚界的人们开始反思，正如大多数政客的穿戴一样，他们转而推崇一种代表着某种价值的穿戴方式，并希望他们的品牌与这种价值联系在一起。
• Shame, compunction, and sense of futility flooded his whole being.
  羞耻、内疚和徒劳的感觉把他整个人都淹没了。
• 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。
• 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。
• Their lives ended without compunction or qualm.
  他们没有任何愧疚或不安的杀了他们。
• I felt absolutely no compunction in asking him for money.
  向他要钱我良心上毫无愧疚。
• Not so my companion: she ran back in terror, knelt down, and cried, and soothed, and entreated, till he grew quiet from lack of breath: by no means from compunction at distressing her.
  我的同伴可不这样想：她恐怖地跑回去，跪下来，又叫，又安慰又哀求，直到他没了劲，安静了下来，决不是因为看她难过而懊悔的。
• 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。