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

• There are others, who sooth their consciences with small acts of kindness.
  还有些人，用他们善意的小举动来安抚自己的良心；
• 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。
• Their consciences were troubled by stories of famine and war.
  饥荒和战争的报道使他们的良心感到不安。
• 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。
• There are others, who sooth their consciences with small acts of kindness. He has a heart of gold.
  有些人用他们善意的小事安抚他们的良心。
• There are others who soothe their consciences with small acts of kindness, or by telling themselves their sins were justified.
  有人会做点小善事来安抚他们的良心，或者告诉自己这些罪行是正当的。
• 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。
• 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。