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单词 conscience
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Our collective challenge is to nurture a sense of moral conscience in future generations.So can we wear cut-price party dresses with a clear conscience?They are low calorie and have a caramel flavour, so they taste as good as your conscience feels.He added:'My conscience is clear.If you try to ease your guilty conscience by telling her what happened, she will be miserable and it will almost certainly put paid to your friendship.She told the court:'I acted with trust and with a clear conscience with the only intention of defending the public interest.I have to go to my house with my conscience clear that I gave my all.This is certainly true of beliefs in the importance of freedom of conscience.He wanted to clear his conscience before he dies.They are displaying an alarming lack of social conscience.More like to blot out his guilty conscience.The latter should follow conscience and international law to deliver help where it is needed.It appears that a conscience is actually good for business.Because religious freedom is a foundational freedom of conscience.He can therefore slow down with a clear conscience.Their lack of conscience helps them a great deal.Is this the gift of a guilty conscience?It might make your conscience feel better but how would it make your girlfriend feel?Racing has all this on its conscience right now, and it should be weighing heavy.You don't need much of a social conscience to know this is wrong.It's for a lot of different things such as prisoners of conscience and human rights.He has a conscience, he knows right from wrong. Good for the conscience, but what are they like?Life's pressures weigh less heavily on those who genuinely have no conscience or guilt, the pathologisttold me.

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British English: conscience /ˈkɒnʃəns/ NOUN
Your conscience is the part of your mind that tells you if what you are doing is wrong. If you have a guilty conscience, or if you have something on your conscience, you feel guilty because you know you have done something wrong.
I started paying attention to my conscience.
  • American English: conscience
  • Arabic: ضَمِير
  • Brazilian Portuguese: consciência
  • Chinese: 良心
  • Croatian: savjest
  • Czech: svědomí
  • Danish: samvittighed
  • Dutch: geweten
  • European Spanish: conciencia moral
  • Finnish: omatunto
  • French: conscience
  • German: Gewissen
  • Greek: συνείδηση
  • Italian: coscienza
  • Japanese: 良心
  • Korean: 양심
  • Norwegian: samvittighet
  • Polish: sumienie
  • European Portuguese: consciência
  • Romanian: conștiință
  • Russian: совесть
  • Latin American Spanish: conciencia
  • Swedish: samvete
  • Thai: ความรู้สึกผิดชอบชั่วดี
  • Turkish: vicdan
  • Ukrainian: сумління
  • Vietnamese: lương tâm

All related terms of 'conscience'

Chinese translation of 'conscience'

conscience

(ˈkɔnʃəns)

n

  1. (c) (= sense of morality) 是非感 (shìfēi gǎn) (种(種), zhǒng)
  2. (u) (= belief) 良心 (liángxīn)
    to have a guilty/clear conscience 感到内(內)疚/问(問)心无(無)愧 (gǎndào nèijiù/wèn xīn wú kuì)
    to have sth on one's conscience 因某事而感到内(內)疚 (yīn mǒushì ér gǎndào nèijiù)
    in all or good conscience (frm) 凭(憑)良心 (píng liángxīn)
(noun) 
Definition
the sense of right and wrong that governs a person's thoughts and actions
I have battled with my conscience over whether I should speak up or not.
Synonyms
principles
scruples
moral sense
sense of right and wrong
still small voice
(noun) 
Definition
a feeling of guilt
She was suffering terrible pangs of conscience about what she had done.
Synonyms
guilt
Her emotions went from anger to guilt in the space of a few seconds.
shame
regret
He has no regrets about retiring.
remorse
She has shown no remorse for her actions.
contrition
She is full of contrition and has vowed to change her ways.
self-reproach
self-condemnation

idiom

See in all conscience

Quotations

Conscience: the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking [H.L. Mencken – A Little Book in C Major]
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all [William Shakespeare – Hamlet]Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it [Samuel Butler]

proverb

A guilty conscience needs no accuser

Additional synonyms

in the sense of contrition
She is full of contrition and has vowed to change her ways.
Synonyms
regret,
sorrow,
remorse,
repentance,
compunction,
penitence,
self-reproach
in the sense of regret
Definition
a feeling of repentance, guilt, or sorrow
He has no regrets about retiring.
Synonyms
remorse,
compunction,
self-reproach,
pang of conscience,
bitterness,
repentance,
contrition,
penitence,
ruefulness
in the sense of remorse
Definition
a sense of deep regret and guilt for something one did
She has shown no remorse for her actions.
Synonyms
regret,
shame,
guilt,
pity,
grief,
compassion,
sorrow,
anguish,
repentance,
contrition,
compunction,
penitence,
self-reproach,
pangs of conscience,
ruefulness,
bad or guilty conscience

Synonyms of 'conscience'

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