Compunction

(noun.) a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed).

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• And will he sell his own fairer and diviner part without any compunction to the most godless and foul? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Now he was smitten with compunction, yet irritated that so trifling an omission should be stored up against him after nearly two years of marriage. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• It may be that he pursues her doggedly and steadily, with no touch of compunction, remorse, or pity. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• But they were generally accompanied by a sense of compunction and self-abasement of which Newland Archer felt no trace. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• If they fire, Watson, have no compunction about shooting them down. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Will the creature feel any compunction at tyrannizing over them? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Will had bruised her pride too sorely for her to feel any compunction towards him and Dorothea: her own injury seemed much the greater. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I had little doubt then, and I have less doubt now, that he would have knocked me down without the least compunction, if I had hesitated. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• I could take a human life, if necessary, with far less compunction than that of a poor, unreasoning, irresponsible brute. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• Gerty paused with sudden compunction. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Why, then they have some compunction, and are for making up matters with Heaven. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Hers was not the nature to spare him, and she had no compunction. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Apparently with no compunction, and assuredly with no ceremony, Bella tossed her bonnet away, and sat down to make the tea. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• It was horrid of me to say that of Gerty, she said with charming compunction. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Has he so little pity or compunction? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• I must confess,' says the mild little gentleman, coming to his answer by degrees, 'that I felt some compunctions when Mr Fledgeby mentioned it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• This was no time for fine compunctions, nor for a chivalry that these cruel demons would neither appreciate nor reciprocate. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.

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