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

• 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。
• She keep me waiting without the slightest compunction.
  她让我久等毫不内疚。
• But they also feel little compunction about stealing software.
  但他们同时又毫无顾忌地盗窃软件。
• I felt absolutely no compunction in asking him for money.
  向他要钱我良心上毫无愧疚。
• He would use it to get what he wanted without compunction if it would help, but not as though he was enamored of it; rather as if he deemed people beneath contempt for being influenced by it.
  倘若必要的话，他会若无其事地运用他的美貌去得到他想得到的东西，不过，他好像并不沉醉于自己的美貌，他似乎认为受自己的美貌影响的是最不足挂齿的。
• Ended the relationship without compunction;
  毫不后悔地结束了关系；
• But whenever it was possible to send a house-serf for a soldier in place of a peasant, he did so without the smallest compunction.
  只有在可以用家奴代替农民去当兵的时候，他就会毫不犹豫地派家奴去当兵。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。