compunction

英 [kəmˈpʌŋkʃn]

美 [kəmˈpʌŋkʃn]

n. 内疚; 愧疚

复数：compunctions　

GRE TEM8

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

But they also feel little compunction about stealing software.
但他们同时又毫无顾忌地盗窃软件。
Their lives ended without compunction or qualm.
他们没有任何愧疚或不安的杀了他们。
I would have broken my word without compunction.
我会毫无内疚地食言。
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。
He might have spared his compunction, for Catherine had not noticed the lapse.
不过他也大可不必感到不安，因为凯瑟琳根本没有注意到（他说话的）疏忽。
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。
She kept us waiting without the slightest compunction.
她一直让我们等着却毫无歉意。
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。
The hate towards others manifests itself as jealousy, revenge and the hate towards oneself has inferiority complex and compunction as its manifestation.
对别人的恨表现为嫉妒心、报复心；对自己的恨则体现为自卑感、内疚感或罪恶感。
She stood me up without compunction.
她没有良心不安让我空等。