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

• Not so my companion: she ran back in terror, knelt down, and cried, and soothed, and entreated, till he grew quiet from lack of breath: by no means from compunction at distressing her.
  我的同伴可不这样想：她恐怖地跑回去，跪下来，又叫，又安慰又哀求，直到他没了劲，安静了下来，决不是因为看她难过而懊悔的。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• Everyone feels guilty from time to time, but being consumed with compunction can suck the joy out of life.
  每个人时不时都会感有内疚，但是被“良心”吃了的话会让你的生活没有快乐。
• I felt some compunction at having kept her waiting.
  我有点后悔要她等我。
• Ended the relationship without compunction;
  毫不后悔地结束了关系；
• 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。
• She stood me up without compunction.
  她没有良心不安让我空等。
• 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。