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the part of your mind that tells you whether your actions are right or wrong 良心；良知 to have a clear/guilty conscience (= to feel that you have done right/wrong) 問心無愧／有愧 This is a matter of individual conscience (= everyone must make their own judgement about it). 這關系到個人的良知。 He won't let it trouble his conscience. 他不會讓這件事搞得自己良心不安的。
Extra ExamplesTopics Personal qualitiesc1After the meal she spent a week dieting to salve her conscience. 大吃一頓後，她花了一周時間節食以安慰自己。 At the end of each day, examine your conscience. 每天結束的時候，扪心自省一下。 He felt his conscience telling him to apologize. 他感覺良心一直告訴自己去道歉。 He wrestled with his conscience all night long. 他整晚上都在同自己的良心鬥爭。 Her conscience pricked her every time she thought of how cruel she had been to Kirby. 一想到自己對柯比曾經那麽殘酷，她就内疚心痛。 Her conscience was bothering her a little. 她的良心使她有點兒不安。 How can you do your job with a clean conscience? 你怎麽能問心無愧地幹你的活兒呢？ I have a clear conscience. 我問心無愧。 I have only ever followed my conscience. 我不過是一直憑着自己的良心行事罷了。 I never knew a more tender conscience on every point of duty. 我從沒見過對自己職責的方方面面考慮得如此周到細致的人。 It should be a matter of individual conscience. 這應該是個人良知的問題。 It's important to let your conscience guide your decisions. 重要的是作決定不違背良心。 My conscience dictates that I resign. 良心驅使我辭職。 She refused to listen to the voice of conscience. 她拒絕聽從良心的召喚。 To clear my conscience and make it up to you, I'd like to take you out to dinner. 爲了消除我的内疚並補償你，我想帶你出去吃飯。 a bill which has shocked the conscience of every middle-class community 震驚了每個中産階級社區良知的法案 a dying man with a guilty conscience 心懷愧疚的垂死之人 a government with no social conscience 一個沒有社會公德的政府 a seminal conference on religious conscience and poverty 一個有重大影響力的關於宗教良知與貧困的會議 consumers with an environmental conscience 有環境意識的消費者 the collective conscience of American business 美國企業的集體良知 His decision appears to have been an act of conscience. 他的決定看起來是有良知的行爲。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- clean
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- guide somebody/something
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- an act of conscience
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a guilty feeling about something you have done or failed to do 内疚；愧疚 She was seized by a sudden pang of conscience. 她突然感到一陣内疚。 I have a terrible conscience about it. 我對此事深感愧疚。
Extra ExamplesHe had no conscience about taking his brother's money. 他對拿哥哥的錢一點兒也不覺得内疚。 Best came forward because of an attack of conscience. 因爲良心發現貝斯特站了出來。 I had a sudden pang of conscience that I really ought to tell the truth. 我突然感到一陣内疚，覺得確實應該說出真相。 We assuaged our conscience by telling ourselves that they would be worse off without us. 爲了使良心好過，我們對自己說沒有我們他們會更糟糕。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- clean
- clear
- easy
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- have
- appease
- assuage
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- guide somebody/something
- tell somebody something
- bother somebody
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- on your conscience
- an act of conscience
- an attack of conscience
- a crisis of conscience
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the fact of behaving in a way that you feel is right even though this may cause problems 憑良心 freedom of conscience (= the freedom to do what you believe to be right) 憑良心行事的自由 Emilia is the voice of conscience in the play. 埃米莉亞在這出戲中是良知的代言人。
Extra ExamplesHow could people of conscience allow this to happen? 有良知的人怎麽能容許這樣的事情發生？ individual rights and rights of conscience on our campuses of higher education 我們高校校園内的個人權利和信仰權利
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- clean
- clear
- easy
- …
- have
- appease
- assuage
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- guide somebody/something
- tell somebody something
- bother somebody
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- on your conscience
- an act of conscience
- an attack of conscience
- a crisis of conscience
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Word OriginMiddle English (also in the sense ‘inner thoughts or knowledge’): via Old French from Latin conscientia, from conscient- ‘being privy to’, from the verb conscire, from con- ‘with’ + scire ‘know’.
Idioms
in (all/good) conscience
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believing your actions to be fair （認爲行爲）公正地，公平地，憑良心
on your conscience
making you feel guilty for doing or failing to do something 使人内疚；良心不安 I'll write and apologize. I've had it on my conscience for weeks. 我要寫信賠禮道歉。幾個星期以來我都爲此而良心不安。 It’s still on my conscience that I didn’t warn him in time. 我沒有及時警告他，這仍然是我的良心。
Extra ExamplesTopics Feelingsc2It was on his conscience that he hadn't called her. 他因沒給她打電話而愧疚不安。 I'm sure she has something on her conscience. 我肯定她心裏有什麽事兒讓她良心不安。
prick your conscience | your conscience pricks you