guilt
guilt 英 [gɪlt] 美 [ɡɪlt]
n. 犯罪，过失；内疚
名词复数:guilts
- You experience guilt when you feel bad about doing something wrong or committing some offense. Guilt is also the state of having committed the offense — it's the opposite of "innocence."
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- n. 犯罪，过失；内疚
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1. She had feelings of guilt about leaving her children and going to work.
她因离开自己的孩子去工作而感到内疚。
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2. Many survivors were left with a sense of guilt.
许多幸存者都有内疚感。
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3. an admission of guilt
承认有罪
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4. His guilt was proved by the prosecution.
他的罪行已被原告证实。
- guilt (n.) Old English gylt "crime, sin, moral defect, failure of duty," of unknown origin, though some suspect a connection to Old English gieldan "to pay for, debt," but OED editors find this "inadmissible phonologically." The -u- is an unetymological insertion. In law, "That state of a moral agent which results from his commission of a crime or an offense wilfully or by consent" [Century Dictionary], from early 14c. Then use for "sense of guilt," considered erroneous by purists, is first recorded 1680s. Guilt by association recorded by 1919.
- guilt (v.) "to influence someone by appealing to his sense of guiltiness," by 1995, from guilt (n.). Related: Guilted; guilting. Old English also had a verbal form, gyltan (Middle English gilt), but it was intransitive and meant "to commit an offense, act criminally."
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