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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• I felt some compunction at having kept her waiting.
  我有点后悔要她等我。
• I would have broken my word without compunction.
  我会毫无内疚地食言。
• She kept us waiting without the slightest compunction.
  她一直让我们等着却毫无歉意。
• To meet the threat of an enemy without compunction, who sets the value of human life at naught, governments will need to beef up both.
  眼下的敌人毫无悔疚之心，视人命如草芥；为应对其威胁，各国政府需加强以上两方面搜集情报工作。
• "I ought to have come with Kath", she thought; and felt a slight compunction at having become so wrapped up in Bette that she'd neglected Kath.
  我应该同凯丝一道来，她想；觉得这一阵子同蓓蒂混得太多，以致冷落了凯丝，心里有点内疚。