a guilty feeling about doing sth
She felt no compunction about leaving her job.
她对自己的辞职一点儿也不感到懊悔。
He had lied to her without compunction.
他向她撒了谎却毫无愧疚。
She has no compunctions about rejecting the plan.
她对拒绝那个计划丝毫也不后悔。
1.良心的责备,后悔,懊悔,悔恨
1.a feeling that you should not do something because it is wrong
1.He might have spared his compunction, for Catherine had not noticed the lapse.
不过他也大可不必感到不安,因为凯瑟琳根本没有注意到(他说话的)疏忽。
2.I might feel a trifle of compunction if I had to deal with a President of the United States.
要是我不得不和一位美国总统打交道的话,我可能会感到有点内疚。
3.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。
4.After seeing the obliteration of its sister ship, the Twilight 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。
5.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。
6.He was, he liked to say, a "corsair of the Republic" , implicitly given permission to proceed with dash and without compunction.
德纳尔总是会说,他是“共和国的一个清道夫”,政府暗暗地允许他进行破坏活动而无需有良心的谴责。
7.Iraq has had no compunction about using weapons of mass destruction against its own people and against its neighbors.
伊拉克对其使用大规模毁灭性武器对付本国人民和邻国的行径,毫无悔改之意。
8.I've always had an overwhelming compunction to confess, to reveal the most revolting details of my existence to others.
我总是有着需要为之忏悔的压倒性的良心的谴责,来向别人暴露我生活的最令人厌恶的细节。
9.He has no compunction about relating how he killed his father.
他在讲述自己杀害父亲的过程时,没有感到丝毫的内疚。
10.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。