compunction
compunction 英 [kəmˈpʌŋkʃn] 美 [kəmˈpʌŋkʃən]
n. 悔恨，后悔；内疚
名词复数:compunctions
- When you feel compunction you feel very, very sorry, usually for something you did to hurt someone or mess something up. When you feel no compunction, you're not at all sorry.
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- n. 悔恨，后悔；内疚
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1. Mr Linton stood looking at her in sudden compunction and fear. He told me to fetch some water.
林惇先生刹那间感到既悔恨、又恐惧，站在那儿望着她，吩咐我去拿点水来。
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2. Others have no such compunction, like Ronald Hutton, a history professor at the University of Bristol.
其他人可没这个内疚，譬如布里斯托大学的一位史学教授罗纳德 哈顿。
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3. We shall have no compunction in throwing overboard our ancient manners, nor any in emulating their lack of courtesy.
抛弃我们古代的礼仪我们将不会产生内疚之情，效仿他们缺乏殷勤好客的态度我们也不会心生不安之意。
- compunction (n.) mid-14c., "remorse, contrition (for wrongdoing, as a means of attaining forgiveness of one;s sins)," from Old French compunction (12c., Modern French componction), from Late Latin compunctionem (nominative compunctio) "remorse; a stinging or pricking" (of the conscience), noun of action from past-participle stem of Latin compungere "to severely prick, sting," from com-, here probably an intensive prefix (see com-), + pungere "to prick, pierce" (from suffixed form of PIE root *peuk- "to prick"). The Latin word was used in a figurative sense by early Church writers. Originally a much more intense feeling, similar to "remorse," or "contrition."
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