scruple 的 3 个定义
- a moral or ethical consideration or standard that acts as a restraining force or inhibits certain actions.
- a very small portion or amount.
- a unit of weight equal to 20 grains or 1/3 of a dram, apothecaries' weight.
- an ancient Roman unit of weight equivalent to 1/24 of an ounce or 1/288 of an as or pound.Compare as.
scru·pled, scru·pling.
- to have scruples.
scru·pled, scru·pling.
- to have scruples about; hesitate at.
scruple 近义词
misgiving, doubt
balk, have misgivings
更多scruple例句
- Kane is an incredibly wealthy man, a newspaper baron with few scruples about journalism who attains immense power, only to see it start to fade near the end of his life.
- It wasn't any scruple of mercy, for Hicks was as cold-blooded a brute as ever glanced down a gun-barrel.
- Here, you,” he growled, “was aught said to thee whereby thou hast a scruple to tell me how many guns defend the Cashmere Gate?
- If he sometimes come across a precept which is perfectly clear and irrefutable, Donald does not scruple to ignore it.
- Little Larkins had told all, and his father had no scruple in repeating it, and causing the investigation to be set on foot.
- He appropriated it without scruple, and was soon joined by a troop of travelers bound for Marhala.