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单词 conscience
释义

conscience

/ˈkɒnʃ(ə)ns /
noun
A person’s moral sense of right and wrong, viewed as acting as a guide to one’s behaviour: he had a guilty conscience about his desires [mass noun]: Ben was suffering a pang of conscience...
  • Does God create human beings with a conscience and moral reasoning powers and then leave them alone?
  • He could touch if he wanted to, and he did want to, so badly, but his conscience knew it was wrong.
  • The common people, whose consciences are still alert, are the wheat.

Synonyms

sense of right and wrong, sense of right, moral sense, still small voice, inner voice, voice within;
morals, standards, values, principles, ethics, creed, beliefs;
compunction, scruples, qualms

Phrases

in (all) conscience

on one's conscience

Derivatives

conscienceless

/ˈkɒnʃ(ə)nsləs / adjective ...
  • The conscienceless exploitation of the disadvantaged is something that every decent American should be concerned with.
  • One can no longer argue that human suffering is certain and preordained without being judged conscienceless, even inhuman.
  • To all you knuckle headed, conscienceless conservatives out there, read my first post again and allow yourself to ask the obvious question.

Origin

Middle English (also in the sense 'inner thoughts or knowledge'): via Old French from Latin conscientia, from conscient- 'being privy to', from the verb conscire, from con- 'with' + scire 'know'.

  • science from Middle English:

    Originally science was knowledge in general, or any branch of knowledge, including the arts, and the word is from Latin scire ‘to know’ (also found in conscience (Middle English) ‘inner knowledge’ and nice). The restricted modern sense of science, concentrating on the physical and natural world, dates from the 18th century. Science fiction was first mentioned in 1851, but this was an isolated use, and the term did not become common until the end of the 1920s, when US ‘pulp’ magazines (so called because of the cheap paper they were printed on) like Astounding Stories carried tales of space adventure. Before science fiction was coined the stories of writers such as Jules Verne were called scientific fiction or scientifiction.

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