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。
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then, if you hear of me being discovered dead in a bog or a pit full of snow, your conscience won't whisper that it is partly your fault?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So saying, Mr Quilp put his hat on and took himself off, and Mrs Quilp, who was afflicted beyond measure by the recollection of the part she had just acted, shut herself up in her chamber, and smothering her head in the bed-clothes bemoaned her fault more bitterly than many less tender-hearted persons would have mourned a much greater offence; for, in the majority of cases, conscience is an elastic and very flexible article, which will bear a deal of stretching and adapt itself to a great variety of circumstances.
-- It would have been strange if the careless profligate, who was the butt of both, had been harassed by any such consideration; for his high opinion of his own merits and deserts rendered the project rather a laudable one than otherwise; and if he had been visited by so unwonted a guest as reflection, he would being a brute only in the gratification of his appetites have soothed his conscience with the plea that he did not mean to beat or kill his wife, and would therefore, after all said and done, be a very tolerable, average husband.
-- My conscience misgave me when I did it.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But the justiciary found it necessary to add a few words concerning the importance of the power given to the jury; that it should be used with care, and should not be abused; that they had taken an oath; that they were the conscience of society, and that the secrecy of the consultation room was sacred, etc., etc.
-- From that day to this there was a long period of uncleanliness, the longest he had gone through yet, and, therefore, he had never sunk so deep, and never before was there such discord between the demands of his conscience and the life which he was leading.
-- Although he was going to do something for the peasants which they never dared even to think of, his conscience was troubled.
-- Everything seemed to be satisfactory, and yet Nekhludoff felt sad and lonesome, but, above all, his conscience troubled him.
-- It is my business to do what my conscience demands," he said to himself.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "It's a black conscience that can make you feared of me.
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