conscience

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɒn.ʃəns/|/ˈkɒn.tʃəns/    美 /ˈkɑn.ʃəns/|/ˈkɑn.tʃəns/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The ethical or moral sense of right and wrong, chiefly as it affects a person’s own behaviour and forms their attitude to their past actions. countable,uncountable
    — Your conscience is your highest authority.
  2. A personification of the moral sense of right and wrong, usually in the form of a person, a being or merely a voice that gives moral lessons and advices. countable,uncountable
  3. Consciousness; thinking; awareness, especially self-awareness. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought.

词形变化

consciences plural

词汇关系

衍生词
a good conscience is a soft pillow bad conscience conscience clause conscienced conscienceless consciencelike conscience money conscience-money conscience-proof conscience round conscience vote consciencewise consciencism consciencist conscientious examination of conscience exile of conscience freedom of conscience guilty conscience in all conscience in conscience in good conscience liberty of conscience make conscience my conscience of all conscience on one's conscience pang of conscience prisoner of conscience pseudoconscience speak one's conscience unconscienced
相关词
conscientious conscientiously conscientiousness conscionable consciousness synteresis

词源

From Middle English conscience, from Old French conscience, from Latin conscientia (“knowledge within oneself”), from consciens, present participle of conscire (“to know, to be conscious (of wrong)”), from com- (“together”) + scire (“to know”).
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