conscience

名词 conscience:

1. motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions
   同义词：scruples, moral sense, sense of right and wrong
2. conformity to one's own sense of right conduct
3. a feeling of shame when you do something immoral

1. How can he reconcile it to his conscience?
   他怎能问心无愧呢？
2. She was afflicted with conscience.
   她受良心责备。
3. She paid the repair bill as a salve to her conscience.
   她付了维修费以减轻内疚感。
4. The thief's conscience smote him.
   那个贼突然良心发现。
5. She gave him back the money she'd stolen for the sake of her conscience.
   为了不受良心的谴责，她把从他那偷来的钱还给他了。

con.science

n.（名词）

The awareness of a moral or ethical aspect to one`s conduct together with the urge to prefer right over wrong:
良心：对鞭策人行善而非作恶的本能行为在伦理或道德上的意识：
例句：
Let your conscience be your guide.
让你的良心指引你

A source of moral or ethical judgment or pronouncement:
是非之心：伦理或道德判断或声明的根据：
例句：
a document that serves as the nation`s conscience.
一份表明民族道德准则的文件

Conformity to one`s own sense of right conduct:
正义之心：对自己感觉正确的行为的坚持：
例句：
a person of unflagging conscience.
正义感坚定的人

The part of the superego in psychoanalysis that judges the ethical nature of one`s actions and thoughts and then transmits such determinations to the ego for consideration.
超我之心：心理学上用来判断某人行为和思想的道德标准的超我部分，之后将判断结果传送给自我进行考虑
Obsolete Consciousness.
【废语】 意识

<习惯用语>in (all good) conscience
In all truth or fairness.
公平：凭事实或公正
来源：
Middle English
中古英语
from Old French
源自 古法语
from Latin cônscientia
源自 拉丁语 cônscientia
from cônsciôns cônscient- [present participle of] cônscore [to be conscious of]
源自 cônsciôns cônscient- [] cônscore的现在分词 [意识到…]
com- [intensive pref.] * see com-
com- [前缀，表加强词义] *参见 com-
score [to know] * see skei-
score [知道] *参见 skei-

【引伸】
con.scienceless
adj.（形容词）