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conscience

/kon-shuhns/US // ˈkɒn ʃəns //UK // (ˈkɒnʃəns) //

良心,良知

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the inner sense of what is right or wrong in one's conduct or motives, impelling one toward right action: to follow the dictates of conscience.
    • : the complex of ethical and moral principles that controls or inhibits the actions or thoughts of an individual.
    • : an inhibiting sense of what is prudent: I'd eat another piece of pie but my conscience would bother me.
    • : conscientiousness.
    • : Obsolete. consciousness; self-knowledge.
    • : Obsolete. strict and reverential observance.

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Examples

  • You’ve focused a lot on the soul and conscience of Mediabrands.

  • He wonders whether next season he will be able to win his job back or whether the state of the virus will have improved enough for him to return with a clear conscience.

  • If Republicans have genuinely relocated their fiscal consciences, they’ll listen.

  • She is a rapper with a conscience, and she’s not going away.

  • Don’t know if this is the answer you were looking for, but it’s the only one I can give in good conscience.

  • Instead, straighten your civic backbone and push back in clear conscience.

  • Better to be a beggar in freedom,” he cried out, “than to be forced into compromises against my conscience.

  • Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Oskar Schindler—these names come readily to mind when we think of heroes of conscience.

  • As you put it, “letting some business owners exercise their conscience would cause no harm to gays.”

  • “Nothing in this country of good conscience has ever happened without protest,” he said.

  • She reached forward to it in ecstasy; but she might not enjoy it, save at the price which her conscience exacted.

  • In this way it will be managed with less offense and with more ease to the conscience than now.

  • My conscience importuned me to tell her bluntly that they would only come into Walsh feet first.

  • That he might lose his head and 'introduce an element of sex' was conscience confessing that it had been already introduced.

  • But the conscience of Louis was at rest; and he soon found that "man does not live by bread alone!"