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

• To meet the threat of an enemy without compunction, who sets the value of human life at naught, governments will need to beef up both.
  眼下的敌人毫无悔疚之心，视人命如草芥；为应对其威胁，各国政府需加强以上两方面搜集情报工作。
• 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。
• I would have broken my word without compunction.
  我会毫无内疚地食言。
• I feel no compunction in doing it.
  做这件事我不感到负疚。
• 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。
• Applying the vector representation of formula for definite proportional division point in vector algebra, this paper obtains a new useful method of compunction for segment ratio in volume ratio.
  阐述了内容积比的概念、调节的目的和实现方式、分析了与内容积比调节相关的案例，明确了内容积比在螺杆制冷压缩机运行中的重要性。
• Shame, compunction, and sense of futility flooded his whole being.
  羞耻、内疚和徒劳的感觉把他整个人都淹没了。
• She kept us waiting without the slightest compunction.
  她一直让我们等着却毫无歉意。
• I felt some compunction at having kept her waiting.
  我有点后悔要她等我。
• She keep me waiting without the slightest compunction.
  她让我久等毫不内疚。