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

• Life in the college is colourful and bright, which predicate that when you recall it many years later, there is so many nice memory in your mind and nothing to compunction.
  大学生活是丰富多彩的，这意味着当你多年后再回想起时，原来有如此多美好的记忆，而不为任何的事情忏悔。
• 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。
• Before my conversion, I could sin and feel no compunction, hear of my guilt and yet remain unhumbled, and even confess my iniquity and manifest no inward humiliation on account of it.
  信主以前，我犯罪但不感懊悔，听人讲述我的罪行仍然不知谦卑，即使承认错误亦不会因错而体验到内心的忧伤。
• I felt some compunction at having kept her waiting.
  我有点后悔要她等我。
• He stole the money without the slightest compunction.
  他偷钱却丝毫不感到良心受谴责。
• On the night of their return, he went to bed full of compunction.
  抵家的那天晚上，他睡觉时充满了内疚。
• I feel no compunction in doing it.
  做这件事我不感到负疚。
• She kept us waiting without the slightest compunction.
  她一直让我们等着却毫无歉意。
• But they also feel little compunction about stealing software.
  但他们同时又毫无顾忌地盗窃软件。
• To meet the threat of an enemy without compunction, who sets the value of human life at naught, governments will need to beef up both.
  眼下的敌人毫无悔疚之心，视人命如草芥；为应对其威胁，各国政府需加强以上两方面搜集情报工作。