compunction

英 [kəmˈpʌŋkʃn]

美 [kəmˈpʌŋkʃn]

n. 内疚; 愧疚

复数：compunctions　

GRE TEM8

BNC.23676 / COCA.27278

牛津词典

noun

内疚；愧疚
a guilty feeling about doing sth
1. She felt no compunction about leaving her job.
  她对自己的辞职一点儿也不感到懊悔。
2. He had lied to her without compunction.
  他向她撒了谎却毫无愧疚。
3. She has no compunctions about rejecting the plan.
  她对拒绝那个计划丝毫也不后悔。

柯林斯词典

N-UNCOUNT 内疚;愧疚
If you say that someonehas no compunction aboutdoing something, you mean that they do it without feeling ashamed or guilty.
1. He has no compunction about relating how he killed his father.
  他在讲述自己杀害父亲的过程时，没有感到丝毫的内疚。

英英释义

noun

a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed)
Synonym:remorseself-reproach

双语例句

Not so my companion: she ran back in terror, knelt down, and cried, and soothed, and entreated, till he grew quiet from lack of breath: by no means from compunction at distressing her.
我的同伴可不这样想：她恐怖地跑回去，跪下来，又叫，又安慰又哀求，直到他没了劲，安静了下来，决不是因为看她难过而懊悔的。
She keep me waiting without the slightest compunction.
她让我久等毫不内疚。
Some people can deceive others without compunction.
有些人可以毫无顾忌的欺骗他人。
I feel no compunction in doing it.
做这件事我不感到负疚。
Generally, people in the fashion world feel a compunction to dress up in some way that represents the values they want associated with their brand, much in the way politicians do.
总体而言，时尚界的人们开始反思，正如大多数政客的穿戴一样，他们转而推崇一种代表着某种价值的穿戴方式，并希望他们的品牌与这种价值联系在一起。
I would have broken my word without compunction.
我会毫无内疚地食言。
On the night of their return, he went to bed full of compunction.
抵家的那天晚上，他睡觉时充满了内疚。
"I ought to have come with Kath", she thought; and felt a slight compunction at having become so wrapped up in Bette that she'd neglected Kath.
我应该同凯丝一道来，她想；觉得这一阵子同蓓蒂混得太多，以致冷落了凯丝，心里有点内疚。
Applying the vector representation of formula for definite proportional division point in vector algebra, this paper obtains a new useful method of compunction for segment ratio in volume ratio.
阐述了内容积比的概念、调节的目的和实现方式、分析了与内容积比调节相关的案例，明确了内容积比在螺杆制冷压缩机运行中的重要性。
Their lives ended without compunction or qualm.
他们没有任何愧疚或不安的杀了他们。