consciences

英 [ˈkɒnʃənsɪz]

美 [ˈkɑntʃɪnsɪz]

n.  良心; 良知; 内疚; 愧疚; 凭良心
conscience的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 良心;良知
  Yourconscienceis the part of your mind that tells you whether what you are doing is right or wrong. If you have aguilty conscience, you feel guilty about something because you know it was wrong. If you have aclear conscience, you do not feel guilty because you know you have done nothing wrong.
  1. I have battled with my conscience over whether I should actually send this letter...
     我备受良心的煎熬，不知是否真的应该把这封信寄出去。
  2. What if he got a guilty conscience and brought it back?...
     要是他觉得内疚，把东西拿回来了怎么办？
  3. I could go away again with a clear conscience.
     我可以问心无愧地再次离开。
• See also:He refused for reasons of conscience to sign a new law legalising abortion....the law on freedom of conscience and religious organizations.prisoner of conscience
• N-UNCOUNT 内疚;良心不安
  Conscienceis a feeling of guilt because you know you have done something that is wrong.
  1. I'm so glad he had a pang of conscience...
     我很高兴他会有负疚感。
  2. They have shown a ruthless lack of conscience.
     他们没有表现出丝毫内疚，实在是太无情了。
• PHRASE 凭良心;出于公道
  If you say that you cannot do somethingin all conscience,in good conscience, orin conscience, you mean that you cannot do it because you think it is wrong.
  1. She could not, in good conscience, back out on her deal with him.
     凭良心她不能背弃与他达成的协议。
• PHRASE 内疚;良心不安
  If you have somethingonyourconscience, you feel guilty because you know you have done something wrong.
  1. Now the murderer has two deaths on his conscience.
     现在，这个杀人犯背着两条人命，受到了良心的谴责。

双语例句

• Alex Wood, the head teacher of Wester Haile Education Centre in Edinburgh, says they should examine their consciences, inferring that there is something immoral about the private sector.
  爱丁堡的西方黑尔教育中心的首席教师，亚历克斯·伍德说他们这些人应该检讨自己的良心，推断那些私立学校的不道德的东西。
• This film about the famine pricked our consciences and we decided to send a donation.
  这部有关饥荒的电影触动了我们的良心，我们决定送去一笔捐款。
• Those who have more children will produce a larger fraction of the next generation than those with more susceptible consciences.
  比起那些易受良知影响的人，那些多子女的占下一代的比例较大。
• We now have another published rod with which to beat the insensitive back of our social consciences.
  现在我们还有一个公开发表了论点来谴责我们那迟钝的社会良心。
• Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.
  这等人的良心，如同被热铁烙惯了一般。
• We are just going to be prisoners of our own consciences.
  我们将会成为自己良心的囚犯。
• There are others, who sooth their consciences with small acts of kindness.
  还有些人，用他们善意的小举动来安抚自己的良心；
• Grappled with their consciences; grapple with the political realities of our time.
  与他们的良知抗争；与我们这个时代的政治现实抗争。
• Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.
  我们既知道主是可畏的，所以劝人，但我们在神面前是显明的，盼望在你们的良心里，也是显明的。
• If the lost of the angel teaches us all that we must restore morals, philanthropy, compassion, and consciences, it will be worthy of the price of Yueyue's life.
  如果天使的逝去能让我们认识到我们必须重塑道德、博爱、同情和良心，那么悦悦的生命代价也值了。