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. feel no qualms upon self-examination
问心无愧
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2. He felt no qualms about borrowing money from friends.
他没有对于从朋友那里借钱感到不安。
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3. He has no qualms about lying.
他撒谎毫不内疚。
- 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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