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

• Their lives ended without compunction or qualm.
  他们没有任何愧疚或不安的杀了他们。
• 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。
• Ended the relationship without compunction;
  毫不后悔地结束了关系；
• She kept us waiting without the slightest compunction.
  她一直让我们等着却毫无歉意。
• "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。
• 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。
• Margaret has never had any compunction about wearing other people's belongings, or indeed lending her own.
  玛格丽特从不在乎穿、戴他人的衣服或首饰，也不在乎把自己的衣服借给别人。
• But they also feel little compunction about stealing software.
  但他们同时又毫无顾忌地盗窃软件。
• I felt absolutely no compunction in asking him for money.
  向他要钱我良心上毫无愧疚。
• She stood me up without compunction.
  她没有良心不安让我空等。