| 单词 | conscience |
| 释义 | conscience (kɒnʃəns ) Word forms: consciences 1. guilty conscience countable noun [usually singular, oft poss NOUN, adjective NOUN] Your conscience is the part of your mind that tells you whether what you are doing is right or wrong. If you have a guilty conscience, you feel guilty about something because you know it was wrong. If you have a clear conscience, you do not feel guilty because you know you have done nothing wrong. I have battled with my conscience over whether I should actually send this letter. What if he got a guilty conscience and brought it back? I could go away again with a clear conscience. 2. uncountable noun Conscience is doing what you believe is right even though it might be unpopular, difficult, or dangerous. He refused for reasons of conscience to sign a new law legalising abortion. ...the law on freedom of conscience and religious organizations. 3. See also prisoner of conscience 4. uncountable noun Conscience is a feeling of guilt because you know you have done something that is wrong. I'm so glad he had a pang of conscience. They have shown a ruthless lack of conscience. 5. in good conscience/in all conscience phrase If you say that you cannot do something in all conscience, in good conscience, or in conscience, you mean that you cannot do it because you think it is wrong. She could not, in good conscience, back out on her deal with him. 6. on your conscience phrase If you have something on your conscience, you feel guilty because you know you have done something wrong. Now the murderer has two deaths on his conscience. Quotations: Conscience: the inner voice which warns us that someone may be lookingA Little Book in C Major Thus conscience does make cowards of us allHamlet Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it A guilty conscience needs no accuser Collocations: clean conscience He could have said that he would have cycled with a clean conscience. Times, Sunday Times I wanted to compete with a clean conscience. Times, Sunday Times Or settle for a clean conscience and the near-certainty of failure? Times, Sunday Times We know about single-use water bottles - and the companies that will charge you upwards of £20 for a bottle in which to carry your drinks with a clean conscience. Times,Sunday Times He has a clear conscience on the matter. Times, Sunday Times (2009) By next week, you'll know more and also be in a position to explore them with a clear conscience. Times, Sunday Times (2009) If they pay for their crime, it gives hope that one day they and you will have a clearer conscience. The Sun (2012) This is certainly true of beliefs in the importance of freedom of conscience. The Times Literary Supplement (2012) Because religious freedom is a foundational freedom of conscience. Times, Sunday Times (2014) They stood for religious liberty and freedom of conscience. Christianity Today (2000) Managers apparently have neither imagination, creativity nor a moral conscience. Times, Sunday Times Rather than engage in politics, he chose to provide a noisy moral conscience to a sinful nation. Christianity Today The formation of a moral conscience within an entire industry necessitates examining two aspects. Christianity Today They crushed not only the innocent bodies of civilians and students, but the idealism and moral conscience of a nation. Times, Sunday Times But he's chosen the army because, to him, it's a matter of social and moral conscience. Times, Sunday Times There are not many better tests of the legitimacy of a regime than whether it permits freedom of religious conscience. Times, Sunday Times She had a highly developed religious conscience but her social conscience, though generally liberal, remained limited. Times, Sunday Times Religious conscience has no rights. Times, Sunday Times The regulations pit against each other two important ideals, each of which would normally command members' support; equality before the law and freedom of religious conscience. Times, Sunday Times Was this a troubled conscience speaking subliminally through music? Times, Sunday Times Nothing came of his troubled conscience. Times, Sunday Times She recommends that as one with a troubled conscience ought to look to a minister for guidance, so should the reader ask a poet for help in understanding her poems. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 And only the morally responsible, with their troubled consciences, can measure the depths of pleasure waiting in the act of losing all sense of responsibility at last. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 良心 Japanese: 良心 |
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