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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After yielding herself up, in this pattern manner, to sisterly advice and the force of circumstances, Fanny became quite benignant: as one who had laid her own inclinations at the feet of her dearest friend, and felt a glow of conscience in having made the sacrifice.
-- As well might it be charged upon me, that the stings of an awakened conscience drove her mad, and that it was the will of the Disposer of all things that she should live so, many years.
-- 'Call it not kindness,' returned Flora, giving her an honest kiss, 'for you always were the best and dearest little thing that ever was if I may take the liberty and even in a money point of view a saving being Conscience itself though I must add much more agreeable than mine ever was to me for though not I hope more burdened than other people's yet I have always found it far readier to make one uncomfortable than comfortable and evidently taking a greater pleasure in doing it but I am wandering, one hope I wish to express ere yet the closing scene draws in and it is that I do trust for the sake of old times and old sincerity that Arthur will know that I didn't desert him in his misfortunes but that I came backwards and forwards constantly to ask if I could do anything for him and that I sat in the pie-shop where they very civilly fetched something warm in a tumbler from the hotel and really very nice hours after hours to keep him company over the way without his knowing it.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Amy's conscience preached her a little sermon from that text, then and there, and she did what many of us do not always do, took the ser-mon to heart, and straightway put it in practice.
-- She thought it would do her no harm, for she sincere-ly meant to write nothing of which she would be ashamed, and quieted all pricks of conscience by anticipations of the happy minute when she should show her earnings and laugh over her well-kept secret.
-- She did neither, but she remembered the scene, and gave the Professor her heartiest respect, for she knew it cost him an effort to speak out then and there, because his conscience would not let him be silent.
-- Jo thought what a blaze her pile of papers upstairs would make, and her hard-earned money lay rather heavily on her conscience at that minute.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Oh!so my conscience hangs in me!'
-- "Like one who after a night of drunken revelry hies to his bed, still reeling, but with conscience yet pricking him, as the plungings of the Roman race-horse but so much the more strike his steel tags into him; as one who in that miserable plight still turns and turns in giddy anguish, praying God for annihilation until the fit be passed; and at last amid the whirl of woe he feels, a deep stupor steals over him, as over the man who bleeds to death, for conscience is the wound, and there's naught to staunch it; so, after sore wrestlings in his berth, Jonah's prodigy of ponderous misery drags him drowning down to sleep.
-- "Blast ye, Captain Bildad, if I had followed thy advice in these matters, I would afore now had a conscience to lug about that would be heavy enough to founder the largest ship that ever sailed round Cape Horn."
-- "Captain Peleg," said Bildad steadily, "thy conscience may be drawing ten inches of water, or ten fathoms, I can't tell; but as thou art still an impenitent man, Captain Peleg, I greatly fear lest thy conscience be but a leaky one; and will in the end sink thee foundering down to the fiery pit, Captain Peleg."
-- I looked round me tranquilly and contentedly, like a quiet ghost with a clean conscience sitting inside the bars of a snug family vault.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After discharg-ing his conscience on that head, he proceeded to inform them, with many rapturous expressions, of his happiness in having obtained the affection of their amiable neighbour, Miss Lucas, and then explained that it was merely with the view of enjoying her society that he had been so ready to close with their kind wish of seeing him again at Longbourn, whither he hoped to be able to return on Monday fortnight; for Lady Catherine, he added, so heartily approved his mar-riage, that she wished it to take place as soon as possible, which he trusted would be an unanswerable argument with his amiable Charlotte to name an early day for making him the happiest of men.
-- How anyone could have the conscience to entail away an estate from one's own daughters, I cannot under-stand; and all for the sake of Mr. Collins too!Why should HE have it more than anybody else?'
-- My conscience told me that I deserved no extraordinary politeness, and I confess that I did not expect to receive MORE than my due.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I found, indeed, some intervals of reflection; and the serious thoughts did, as it were, endea-vour to return again sometimes; but I shook them off, and roused myself from them as it were from a distemper, and applying myself to drinking and company, soon mastered the return of those fits - for so I called them; and I had in five or six days got as complete a victory over conscience as any young fellow that resolved not to be troubled with it could desire.
-- I do not remember that I had, in all that time, one thought that so much as tended either to looking upwards towards God, or inwards towards a reflection upon my own ways; but a certain stupidity of soul, without desire of good, or conscience of evil, had entirely overwhelmed me; and I was all that the most hardened, unthinking, wicked creature among our common sailors can be supposed to be; not hav-ing the least sense, either of the fear of God in danger, or of thankfulness to God in deliverance.
-- My conscience presently checked me in that inquiry, as if I had blasphemed, and methought it spoke to me like a voice: 'Wretch!dost THOU ask what thou hast done?
-- I therefore diverted the present discourse between me and my man, rising up hastily, as upon some sudden occa-sion of going out; then sending him for something a good way off, I seriously prayed to God that He would enable me to instruct savingly this poor savage; assisting, by His Spirit, the heart of the poor ignorant creature to receive the light of the knowledge of God in Christ, reconciling him to Him-self, and would guide me so to speak to him from the Word of God that his conscience might be convinced, his eyes opened, and his soul saved.
-- However, I allowed liberty of conscience throughout my dominions.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others."
-- I could not have answered it to my conscience to let it fall into any other hands.
-- Her manners gave some re-assurance to Edward, and he had courage enough to sit down; but his embarrassment still exceeded that of the ladies in a proportion, which the case rendered reasonable, though his sex might make it rare; for his heart had not the indifference of Lucy's, nor could his conscience have quite the ease of Elinor's.
-- Elinor was very angry, but Marianne seemed entirely insensible of the sting; for she calmly replied,"Not so, indeed; for, seriously speaking, I am very sure that conscience only kept Edward from Harley Street.
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