格言必修 【32】

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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. —— Hellman
    我不能、也不愿毀滅我的良心去迎合時(shí)尚。 —— 赫爾曼
    conscience means the awareness of a moral or ethical aspect to one's conduct together with the urge to prefer right over wrong,指良心對鞭策人行善而非作惡的本能行為在倫理或道德上的意識的意思。例如:Let your conscience be your guide.讓你的良心指引你。His conscience troubled him after he took the money.
    他拿了錢以后,他的良心使他不安。我們常說的憑良心就是according to one's conscience, 問心無愧是have a clear [good] conscience.
    關(guān)于這個(gè)詞,有如下習(xí)慣用語:
    A good conscience is a constant feast. (=A good conscience is a soft pillow.)
    問心無愧, 高枕無憂。
    A guilty conscience is a self-accuser. (=A guilty conscience needs no accuser.)
    做賊心虛。
    A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
    沒做虧心事, 不怕鬼叫門。
    get sth. off one's conscience
    解除良心上的負(fù)擔(dān)
    have the conscience (to do; to say sth.)
    竟厚顏無恥到(做、說……)
    in all conscience
    憑良心說, 真的, 的確, 一定
    make sth. a matter of conscience
    憑良心對待[做]某事
    另外在口語中,我們可以說My conscience!這表示啊呀! 噯! 好家伙! (表示驚奇, 遺憾等)的意思。
    這句格言,其實(shí)說的就是一種堅(jiān)韌不屈的性格。