Compunction
[kəm'pʌŋkʃ(ə)n] or [kəm'pʌŋkʃən]
解释:
(n.) A pricking; stimulation.
(n.) A picking of heart; poignant grief proceeding from a sense of guilt or consciousness of causing pain; the sting of conscience.
安吉莉娜整理
同义词及近义词：
n. Repentance, remorse, contrition, penitence, sorrow, regret, reproach of conscience, sting of conscience.
校对:瓦珥
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Contrition, penitence, misgiving, remorse, regret, sorrow
ANT:Satisfaction, self-complacency, assurance
贝丽尔整理
解释:
n. uneasiness of conscience: remorse: regret: pity.—adj. Compunc′tious feeling or causing compunction: repentant: remorseful.—adv. Compunc′tiously.—Without compunction with no feeling of sorrow or regret.
编辑:特鲁迪
例句:
- And will he sell his own fairer and diviner part without any compunction to the most godless and foul? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Now he was smitten with compunction, yet irritated that so trifling an omission should be stored up against him after nearly two years of marriage. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- It may be that he pursues her doggedly and steadily, with no touch of compunction, remorse, or pity. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- But they were generally accompanied by a sense of compunction and self-abasement of which Newland Archer felt no trace. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- If they fire, Watson, have no compunction about shooting them down. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- Will the creature feel any compunction at tyrannizing over them? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Will had bruised her pride too sorely for her to feel any compunction towards him and Dorothea: her own injury seemed much the greater. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- I had little doubt then, and I have less doubt now, that he would have knocked me down without the least compunction, if I had hesitated. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- I could take a human life, if necessary, with far less compunction than that of a poor, unreasoning, irresponsible brute. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Gerty paused with sudden compunction. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- Why, then they have some compunction, and are for making up matters with Heaven. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Hers was not the nature to spare him, and she had no compunction. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- Apparently with no compunction, and assuredly with no ceremony, Bella tossed her bonnet away, and sat down to make the tea. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- It was horrid of me to say that of Gerty, she said with charming compunction. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- Has he so little pity or compunction? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- I must confess,' says the mild little gentleman, coming to his answer by degrees, 'that I felt some compunctions when Mr Fledgeby mentioned it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- This was no time for fine compunctions, nor for a chivalry that these cruel demons would neither appreciate nor reciprocate. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
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