qualm
qualm 英 [kwɑ:m] 美 [kwɑm, kwɔm]
n. 疑虑；不安
名词复数:qualms
- A qualm is a feeling of uneasiness, or a sense that something you're doing is wrong, and it sounds almost like how it makes your stomach feel. If you had qualms about taking candy from the bulk bins at the store, your conscience probably told you to go back to the cashier and pay.
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- n. 疑虑；不安
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1. All these suppositions contradicted with the Newton's law of gravitational pull and it still remains under qualm as what lies deep inside the planet earth.
所有这些与牛顿的引力法律相抵触推测，它仍在疑虑的是什么样的内心深处，仍然在地球上。
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2. The main qualm was the country's fledgling intellectual property rights laws, which could mean discoveries within its borders would fail to receive adequate legal protection.
主要的原意是该国不完善的知识产权法规，这意味着在该国境内的发现可能无法得到合法保护。
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3. She doesn't have a doubt nor a qualm. She is the modern type.
一个真正的当代女性是一个自信干练的女人，她不会疑虑重重、恐惧紧张，她是现代型的。
- qualm (n.) Old English cwealm (West Saxon) "death, murder, slaughter; disaster; plague; torment," utcualm (Anglian) "utter destruction," probably related to cwellan "to kill, murder, execute," cwelan "to die" (see quell). Sense softened to "feeling of faintness" 1520s; figurative meaning "uneasiness, doubt" is from 1550s; that of "scruple of conscience" is 1640s.
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