| 词组 | conscience |
| 释义 | conscience /ˈkɒnʃəns $ ˈkɑːn-/ noun your feelings about whether your behaviour is morally right or wrongadjectivesa guilty/bad conscience (=the knowledge that you have done something wrong) His guilty conscience kept him awake at night.a clear/easy conscience (=the knowledge that you have done nothing wrong) I was able to answer his questions with a clear conscience.a moral conscience (=an idea of what is right and wrong) At what age do children develop a moral conscience?a social conscience (=a moral sense of what society should be like) The writer’s strong social conscience is obvious in all his novels.verbs + consciencehave a guilty/clear etc conscience He may have a guilty conscience about his role in the accident.wrestle/struggle with your conscience (=struggle to decide whether it is right or wrong to do something) She wrestled with her conscience for weeks before joining the protest.examine your conscience (=ask yourself whether something is right or wrong) After examining his conscience, he still felt he was right.prick sb’s conscience (=make someone feel guilty) Some of the things he did in his youth still prick his conscience.ease sb’s conscience (=make you feel less guilty) Returning some of the money helped to ease her conscience.follow your conscience (=do what you think is morally right) A good leader will always follow his or her conscience.conscience + verbsyour conscience tells you to do sth They offered me a lot of money, but my conscience told me to refuse.your conscience troubles/bothers you (=you feel that something is morally wrong) His conscience continued to bother him and he decided to tell her the truth.phrasesbe a matter of conscience (=be something that you must make a moral judgment about) Whether you vote or not is a matter of conscience.a crisis of conscience (=a situation in which it is very difficult to decide what is right) The minister had a crisis of conscience about whether to give this information to journalists.the voice of conscience (=something in your mind that tells you what is right) If you listen to the voice of conscience, you will know what to do.an attack of conscience (=a sudden strong feeling that you should do what is right) He finally had an attack of conscience and decided to admit what he had done.a prisoner of conscience (=someone who is in prison because they have followed their beliefs about what is right) The men claim that they are prisoners of conscience. |
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