conscience是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 良心; 犯罪感,这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢,今天小编就带您了解一下。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As his fancy wandered among these lofty regions in the great world of Paris, innumerable dark thoughts gathered in his heart; his ideas widened, and his conscience grew more elastic.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The conscience of the woman was troubled; she began to think that the deaths of her favourites was a judgment from heaven to chastise her partiality.
-- Now all was blasted; instead of that serenity of conscience which allowed me to look back upon the past with self-satisfaction, and from thence to gather promise of new hopes, I was seized by remorse and the sense of guilt, which hurried me away to a hell of intense tortures such as no language can describe.
-- 101 My father observed with pain the alteration perceptible in my disposition and habits and endeavoured by argu-ments deduced from the feelings of his serene conscience and guiltless life to inspire me with fortitude and awaken in me the courage to dispel the dark cloud which brooded over me.
-- If you had lis-tened to the voice of conscience and heeded the stings of remorse before you had urged your diabolical vengeance to this extremity, Frankenstein would yet have lived.'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If themoney it contained happened to belong to the firm of O'Hara Brothers, Gerald's conscience was not sufficientlytroubled to confess it before Mass the following morning.
-- Ellen had taught her that at the end of each day it was her duty to examine her conscience thoroughly,to admit her numerous faults and pray to God for forgiveness and strength never to repeat them.
-- When Scarlett first began secretly reading these letters, she had been so stricken of conscience and so fearful ofdiscovery she could hardly open the envelopes for trembling.
-- No pangof conscience at loving another woman's husband or reading that woman's mail disturbed her pleasure in her youth andcharm and her renewed assurance of Ashley's love.
-- Scarlett's guilty conscience stirred as she tried to recall what Ashley might have written that would lead Melanieto make such a statement, but most of the letters she had read had gone out of her head as soon as she finished readingthem.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Conscience is a dreadful thing when it accuses man or boy; but when, in the case of a boy, that secret burden co-operates with another secret burden down the leg of his trousers, it is (as I can testify) a great punishment.
-- Happily I slipped away, and deposited that part of my conscience in my garret bedroom.
-- Then, as I looked up at it, while it dripped, it seemed to my oppressed conscience like a phantom devoting me to the Hulks.
-- One black ox, with a white cravat on,--who even had to my awakened conscience something of a clerical air,--fixed me so obstinately with his eyes, and moved his blunt head round in such an accusatory manner as I moved round, that I blubbered out to him, "I couldn't help it, sir!It wasn't for myself I took it!"
-- was Mrs. Joe's Christmas salutation, when I and my conscience showed ourselves.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His conscience was clear and his heart light amidst all his trou- bles; so he went peaceably to bed, left all his cares to Heaven, and soon fell asleep.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was even harder than he could have believed possible, to separate in his own conscience his abandonment by all his fellows from a baseless sense of shame and disgrace.
-- Either she saw in his face that he knew, or she only feared in her conscience that he knew, that she spoke of some of her husband's gifts.
-- Perhaps, his brotherly conscience is touched if there are such things as consciences.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- No sense of wrong or sin; he was troubled by no conscience in that respect.
-- He knew that conscience was chiefly tear of society, or fear of oneself.
-- His big blue eyes took on the frightened look of a man whose social conscience is not quite clear.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Really so sorry that I should happen to be late on this morning of all mornings because my intention and my wish was to be ready to meet you when you came in and to say that any one that interested Arthur Clennam half so much must interest me and that I gave you the heartiest welcome and was so glad, instead of which they never called me and there I still am snoring I dare say if the truth was known and if you don't like either cold fowl or hot boiled ham which many people don't I dare say besides Jews and theirs are scruples of conscience which we must all respect though I must say I wish they had them equally strong when they sell us false articles for real that certainly ain't worth the money I shall be quite vexed,' said Flora.
-- That I may be sure to acquit myself of a commission which he impressed upon me at least a dozen times, allow me to relieve my conscience by placing it on the table at once.'
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