| 单词 | conscience |
| 释义 | conscienceconscience /ˈkɑnʃəns/ ●●○ noun 1[countable usually singular] the part of your mind that tells you whether the things you do are morally right or wrong: I have to do what my conscience tells me. It was his guilty conscience (=knowledge that he had done something wrong) that made him offer to help. Smith says he has a clear conscience (=knowledge that you have done nothing wrong) about what happened. If anything happens to Emily, I’ll always have it on my conscience (=feel guilty about it). She has a highly developed social conscience (=a moral sense of how society should be). He refused to agree, as a matter of conscience, and was dismissed.► see thesaurus at guilt12[uncountable] a feeling of guilt because you did something wrong: Parker displayed a remarkable lack of conscience about what he had done. She felt a pang of conscience at lying to him.3in good conscience formal if you do something in good conscience, you do it because you think it is the right thing to do: I could not, in good conscience, agree with his decision. [Origin: 1200–1300 Old French, Latin conscientia, from conscire to be conscious (of being guilty)] → see also prisoner of conscience |
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