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

• 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。
• 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。
• Generally, people in the fashion world feel a compunction to dress up in some way that represents the values they want associated with their brand, much in the way politicians do.
  总体而言，时尚界的人们开始反思，正如大多数政客的穿戴一样，他们转而推崇一种代表着某种价值的穿戴方式，并希望他们的品牌与这种价值联系在一起。
• She kept us waiting without the slightest compunction.
  她一直让我们等着却毫无歉意。
• 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。
• He had lied to her without compunction.
  他向她撒了谎却毫无愧疚。
• 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。
• I felt some compunction at having kept her waiting.
  我有点后悔要她等我。
• 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。
• "I ought to have come with Kath", she thought; and felt a slight compunction at having become so wrapped up in Bette that she'd neglected Kath.
  我应该同凯丝一道来，她想；觉得这一阵子同蓓蒂混得太多，以致冷落了凯丝，心里有点内疚。