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

• We must avoid contradictory arguments between our consciences and rules that demand us to act ethically.
  我们必须避免我们的良心和要求我们按伦理行事的规则之间的矛盾冲突。
• They are human beings, after all, and if a study published in the journal Science is any guide, they feel a strong urge to wash their hands literally after a despicable act in an unconscious effort to ease their consciences.
  毕竟他们也是人。如果发表在《科学》杂志上的一份研究报告可以提供些许参考，这种在干完卑劣勾当后想洗手的强烈愿望其实是他们无意识中想减轻内心谴责的努力。
• 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。
• 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。
• We are just going to be prisoners of our own consciences.
  我们将会成为自己良心的囚犯。
• This treatise discussing the relationship between the duality of consciences and sign form, and its crucial meanings of cultural conceptions.
  本文探讨了意识二重性与符号形式的关系，以及符号形式的文化观念意义。
• With the enhancement of environmental and resource consciences of human being, more and more countries have signed the international environmental conventions.
  随着人类环境意识、资源意识的不断深化，越来越多的国家签署了国际环境公约。
• 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。
• Grappled with their consciences; grapple with the political realities of our time.
  与他们的良知抗争；与我们这个时代的政治现实抗争。
• We have followed the dictates of our consciences and have done our duty.
  我们遵从了自己的良知，尽到了自己的义务。