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

But they also feel little compunction about stealing software.
但他们同时又毫无顾忌地盗窃软件。
She kept us waiting without the slightest compunction.
她一直让我们等着却毫无歉意。
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。
To meet the threat of an enemy without compunction, who sets the value of human life at naught, governments will need to beef up both.
眼下的敌人毫无悔疚之心，视人命如草芥；为应对其威胁，各国政府需加强以上两方面搜集情报工作。
He would use it to get what he wanted without compunction if it would help, but not as though he was enamored of it; rather as if he deemed people beneath contempt for being influenced by it.
倘若必要的话，他会若无其事地运用他的美貌去得到他想得到的东西，不过，他好像并不沉醉于自己的美貌，他似乎认为受自己的美貌影响的是最不足挂齿的。
I would have broken my word without compunction.
我会毫无内疚地食言。
He had lied to her without compunction.
他向她撒了谎却毫无愧疚。
Before my conversion, I could sin and feel no compunction, hear of my guilt and yet remain unhumbled, and even confess my iniquity and manifest no inward humiliation on account of it.
信主以前，我犯罪但不感懊悔，听人讲述我的罪行仍然不知谦卑，即使承认错误亦不会因错而体验到内心的忧伤。
"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。
He might have spared his compunction, for Catherine had not noticed the lapse.
不过他也大可不必感到不安，因为凯瑟琳根本没有注意到（他说话的）疏忽。