compunction如何读

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compunction是什么意思

  • n.良心的责备;后悔;悔恨

compunction自然拼读

com·punc·tion

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compunction扩展

compunctious (adj.), compunctiously (adv.)

compunction英英释义

noun

anxiety arising from awareness of guilt

compunctions of conscience

distress of mind over an anticipated action or result

… showed no compunction in planning devilish engines of … destruction.—Havelock Ellis

a twinge of misgiving : scruple … he had no compunction about brushing aside legal technicalities.—Robert Penn Warren

cheated without compunction

compunction词源中文解释

14世纪中期,“悔恨,忏悔(为了获得宽恕罪过的手段)”,源自古法语 compunction(12世纪,现代法语 componction),来自晚期拉丁语 compunctionem(主格 compunctio)“悔恨; 刺痛或刺痛”(良心),是拉丁语 compungere 的动名词,意为“严重刺痛,刺痛”,来自 com-,这里可能是一个强调前缀(见 com-),加上 pungere “刺痛,刺穿”(来自 PIE 根 *peuk- “刺痛”的后缀形式)。

这个拉丁词在早期教会作家中被用于比喻意义。最初是一种更强烈的感觉,类似于“懊悔”或“忏悔”。

compunction词源英文解释

Middle English compunccioun, from Anglo-French compunction, from Late Latin compunction-, compunctio, from Latin compungere to prick hard, sting, from com- + pungere to prick — more at pungent

The first known use of compunction was in the 14th century

compunction儿童词典英英释义

computerizeverb

to carry out, control, or produce through the use of a computer

to provide with computers

to store in a computer

to put into a form that a computer can use

computernoun

one that computesespecially: a programmable usually electronic machine that can store, get back again, and work with data

computeverb

to determine or calculate especially by mathematical meansalso: to determine or calculate by means of a computer

informal to make sense

computationnoun

the act or action of computing : calculation

a system of calculating especially by mathematical means

an amount computed

computationnoun

the act or action of computing : calculation

a system of calculating especially by mathematical means

an amount computed

compunctionnoun

sharp uneasiness caused by a sense of guilt : remorse

a passing feeling of regret for some slight wrong

compunctionnoun

sharp uneasiness caused by a sense of guilt : remorse

a passing feeling of regret for some slight wrong

compunction 例句

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 (US)She has no compunctions about rejecting the plan.

她对拒绝那个计划丝毫也不后悔。

3 I have little compunction in spooning on lemon curd and cream, ennobling the pudding mightily.

4 He felt a kind of compunction.

他感到几分内疚.

5 Everyone feels guilty from time to time, but being consumed with compunction can suck the joy out of life.

每个人时不时都会感有内疚,但是被“良心”吃了的话会让你的生活没有快乐。

6 Craig Robinson lends Curtis a firm manner and bluff humor that find a reflection in Morris’s blend of boldness and compunction, of fierce will and stern principle.

7 He was drawn to insects, he wrote, because they are the most numerous creatures on earth and yet we ignore them, kill them without compunction.

8 The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything.

9 She had no compunctions about the lie and getting the doll under false pretenses.

10 They’d have no compunction about taking her away and just using her.”

11 Trump doesn’t understand or respect the delicate balances built into our constitution and feels no compunction whatsoever in distorting them out of all recognition.

12 We have a policy of never being nasty to minors unless they come anywhere near our house, in which case we have no compunction whatsoever in unleashing the full force of our water cannon.

13 He feels no compunction about his crimes.

14 I felt some compunction at having kept her waiting.

我有点后悔要她等我。

15 After seeing the obliteration of its sister ship, Compunction had no desire to face them alone.

看见它的姐妹舰的命运, 黎明的谴责再没有欲望独自面对他们.

16 Photograph: Karen Robinson For The Observer/Karen Robinson has no compunction about calling himself a junkie.

17 Before, I would have held this to be a crime, but now I felt no compunction.

以前,我认为这样做是一种罪过,如今我不感到有任何疑虑。

18 You might argue that it’s a sign of progress that these writers felt no compunction in writing about troubled, lonely gay characters.

19 I felt some compunction at having kept her waiting.

我有点后悔要她一直等着我。

20 Schwartz has no such ties and no such compunctions.

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