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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But when I came to think the matter over my conscience reproached me bitterly for having on any pretext allowed him to go out of my sight.
-- Still, I could see no better course than to observe him from the hill, and to clear my conscience by confessing to him afterwards what I had done.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One's conscience very soon informs one what is the proper narrative to tell.
-- My intentions are perfectly honest; on my conscience he will lose nothing, and I will pay back the money with interest.
-- This is simply a case of conscience and of strict justice.
-- 'I bet he will!He will have none of your money, possibly, he will refuse it because his conscience will not allow him to accept it, but he will go murdering you by night and walk-ing off with your cashbox, with a clear conscience!He does not call it a dishonest action but 'the impulse of a noble de-spair'; 'a negation'; or the devil knows what!Bah!everything is upside down, everyone walks head downwards.
-- In the second place, and giving my own personal opin-ion, a child's flesh is not a satisfying diet; it is too insipid, too sweet; and the criminal, in making these experiments, could have satisfied neither his conscience nor his appe-tite.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was in the silly season, and a prominent editor, a cousin of the temporary labora-tory-assistant, appealed to the conscience of the nation.
-- It was not the first time that conscience has turned against the methods of research.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We relieve our conscience by the confession, at all events leav-ing it to exercise its authority as it may see fit.
-- The slight qualm of conscience which had been excited by the in-tended deception was instantly appeased, and he began to collect his thoughts, in order to enact his part with suitable spirit, when he found he was about to be anticipated in his skill by an attempt to prove the power of music.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nor with such a man could you expect the appeal to conscience to be effective.
-- I take it that conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And I really believe he HAS the most delicate conscience in the world; the most scrupulous in performing every engagement, however minute, and however it may make against his interest or pleasure.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Minnie had a quaver of conscience as she took it, but did not know how to explain to Hanson if she took less.
-- There is nothing in this world more delightful than that middle state in which we mentally balance at times, possessed of the means, lured by desire, and yet deterred by conscience or want of decision.
-- He might suffer the least rudimentary twinge of conscience in whatever he did, and in just so far he was evil and sinning.
-- But whatever twinges of conscience he might have would be rudimentary, you may be sure.
-- "Put on the old clothes--that torn pair of shoes," was called to her by her conscience in vain.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I tried to make out to myself that I warn't to blame, because I didn't run Jim off from his rightful own-er; but it warn't no use, conscience up and says, every time, 'But you knowed he was running for his free- dom, and you could a paddled ashore and told some- body.'
-- Conscience says to me, 'What had poor Miss Watson done to you that you could see her nigger go off right under your eyes and never say one single word?
-- My conscience got to stirring me up hotter than ever, until at last I says to it, 'Let up on me it ain't too late yet I'll paddle ashore at the first light and tell.'
-- The more I studied about this the more my conscience went to grinding me, and the more wicked and low-down and ornery I got to feel- ing.
-- But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway.
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