consciences

英 [ˈkɒnʃənsɪz]

美 [ˈkɑntʃɪnsɪz]

n.  良心; 良知; 内疚; 愧疚; 凭良心
conscience的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 良心;良知
  Yourconscienceis the part of your mind that tells you whether what you are doing is right or wrong. If you have aguilty conscience, you feel guilty about something because you know it was wrong. If you have aclear conscience, you do not feel guilty because you know you have done nothing wrong.
  1. I have battled with my conscience over whether I should actually send this letter...
     我备受良心的煎熬，不知是否真的应该把这封信寄出去。
  2. What if he got a guilty conscience and brought it back?...
     要是他觉得内疚，把东西拿回来了怎么办？
  3. I could go away again with a clear conscience.
     我可以问心无愧地再次离开。
• See also:He refused for reasons of conscience to sign a new law legalising abortion....the law on freedom of conscience and religious organizations.prisoner of conscience
• N-UNCOUNT 内疚;良心不安
  Conscienceis a feeling of guilt because you know you have done something that is wrong.
  1. I'm so glad he had a pang of conscience...
     我很高兴他会有负疚感。
  2. They have shown a ruthless lack of conscience.
     他们没有表现出丝毫内疚，实在是太无情了。
• PHRASE 凭良心;出于公道
  If you say that you cannot do somethingin all conscience,in good conscience, orin conscience, you mean that you cannot do it because you think it is wrong.
  1. She could not, in good conscience, back out on her deal with him.
     凭良心她不能背弃与他达成的协议。
• PHRASE 内疚;良心不安
  If you have somethingonyourconscience, you feel guilty because you know you have done something wrong.
  1. Now the murderer has two deaths on his conscience.
     现在，这个杀人犯背着两条人命，受到了良心的谴责。

双语例句

• Those who have more children will produce a larger fraction of the next generation than those with more susceptible consciences.
  比起那些易受良知影响的人，那些多子女的占下一代的比例较大。
• There are others, who sooth their consciences with small acts of kindness.
  还有些人，用他们善意的小举动来安抚自己的良心；
• Just occasionally this petty-cash fund had to be tapped for immediate needs, and raiders would ease their consciences by leaving an IOU for the requisite sum.
  当然，偶尔也会因为急需，不得不动这种小金库，不过用钱的人会留下一张写明数目的欠条，因而也不会觉得有什么内疚。
• Indeed, some travellers now ask themselves whether their flight is strictly necessary and, if they decide it is, salve their consciences by paying for the planting of trees.
  确实，一些旅行者现在会自问他们的飞行是否绝对必要，如果是的话，他们会捐款植树来安抚他们的良知。
• The temptation must be resisted, because an appeal to independently acting consciences selects for the disappearance of all conscience in the long run, and an increase in anxiety in the short.
  必须抗拒这种诱惑，因为呼吁独立运作的良知，长期而言是选择全部良知消失，短期而言增加焦虑。
• We now have another published rod with which to beat the insensitive back of our social consciences.
  现在我们还有一个公开发表了论点来谴责我们那迟钝的社会良心。
• Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.
  这等人的良心，如同被热铁烙惯了一般。
• The man implacable and incisive, had stalked our consciousness, and occasionally our consciences, during the intervening years.
  在其后的年代里，态度强硬、语言尖刻的那个人一直潜随着我们的意识，有时潜随着我们的良心。
• This film about the famine pricked our consciences and we decided to send a donation.
  这部有关饥荒的电影触动了我们的良心，我们决定送去一笔捐款。
• Social consciences tend to be underdeveloped and less observed, especially when societies are obsessed with profits.
  社会良心很少得到发展和关注，尤其是充斥着功利的社会。