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

• 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。
• Margaret has never had any compunction about wearing other people's belongings, or indeed lending her own.
  玛格丽特从不在乎穿、戴他人的衣服或首饰，也不在乎把自己的衣服借给别人。
• Our concern is not just about these elicit weapons. it's the way that these elicit weapons can be connected to terrorists and terrorist organizations that have no compunction about using such devices against innocent people around the world.
  我们关注的不仅仅是这些非法武器本身，我们更关注这些武器与恐怖主义相关联的问题，恐怖组织会对整个世界的无辜人民毫不留情地使用这些武嚣。
• Ended the relationship without compunction;
  毫不后悔地结束了关系；
• Their lives ended without compunction or qualm.
  他们没有任何愧疚或不安的杀了他们。
• 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。
• Generally, people in the fashion world feel a compunction to dress up in some way that represents the values they want associated with their brand, much in the way politicians do.
  总体而言，时尚界的人们开始反思，正如大多数政客的穿戴一样，他们转而推崇一种代表着某种价值的穿戴方式，并希望他们的品牌与这种价值联系在一起。
• She stood me up without compunction.
  她没有良心不安让我空等。
• She kept us waiting without the slightest compunction.
  她一直让我们等着却毫无歉意。
• "I ought to have come with Kath", she thought; and felt a slight compunction at having become so wrapped up in Bette that she'd neglected Kath.
  我应该同凯丝一道来，她想；觉得这一阵子同蓓蒂混得太多，以致冷落了凯丝，心里有点内疚。