conscience

conscience
noun
  1. an inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one's behaviour
    良心，良知；道德心
    he had a guilty conscience about his desires.
    他对自己的欲望感到内疚。
    [mass noun]Ben was suffering a pang of conscience.
    本正受到良心的谴责。
常用词组
in (all) conscience
  1. given the fact that this is probably wrong; in fairness
    凭良心；公正地
    how can we in all conscience justify the charging of fees for such a service?.
    我们怎么才能凭良心证明为这种服务收费是合理的？。
on one's conscience
  1. weighing heavily and guiltily on one's mind
    令人感到内疚；受到良心谴责
    an act of providence had prevented him from having a death on his conscience.
    天意阻止了他因良心谴责而自杀。
派生
conscienceless
adjective
语源
  1. Middle 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'
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