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

• 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。
• He had lied to her without compunction.
  他向她撒了谎却毫无愧疚。
• I feel no compunction in doing it.
  做这件事我不感到负疚。
• Ended the relationship without compunction;
  毫不后悔地结束了关系；
• Life in the college is colourful and bright, which predicate that when you recall it many years later, there is so many nice memory in your mind and nothing to compunction.
  大学生活是丰富多彩的，这意味着当你多年后再回想起时，原来有如此多美好的记忆，而不为任何的事情忏悔。
• Some people can deceive others without compunction.
  有些人可以毫无顾忌的欺骗他人。
• She stood me up without compunction.
  她没有良心不安让我空等。
• 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。
• 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。
• Their lives ended without compunction or qualm.
  他们没有任何愧疚或不安的杀了他们。