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

• Do not seek to bind other consciences, and do not permit others to bind yours.
  不要试图约束别人的良心，也不让别人来约束自己的。
• 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。
• Individuals must work daily to adjust their consciences, not only in the confines of the private realm, but in the wider social structure.
  个体必须每天工作来调整他的良心，不局限于其私人王国内，而是在更广阔的社会结构中。
• 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。
• 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。
• It was a matter for them, their tax authorities and their consciences.
  那是纳税人、他们的税务机关以及他们的良心的事。
• Alex Wood, the head teacher of Wester Haile Education Centre in Edinburgh, says they should examine their consciences, inferring that there is something immoral about the private sector.
  爱丁堡的西方黑尔教育中心的首席教师，亚历克斯·伍德说他们这些人应该检讨自己的良心，推断那些私立学校的不道德的东西。
• 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。
• A sort of gleam proceeds from these miserable wretches, as though their consciences were not heavy within them any more.
  有一种轻微的光从这些穷苦的人群中透出来了，仿佛他们心中的压抑已不存在。
• Most were sympathetic once we pricked their consciences
  一旦我们使他们良心发现，大多数人还是有同情心的。