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(duì)鞭策人行善而非作惡的本能行為在倫理或道德上的意識(shí)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(shuō)的憑良心就是according to one's conscience, 問(wèn)心無(wú)愧是have a clear [good] conscience.
    關(guān)于這個(gè)詞,有如下習(xí)慣用語(yǔ):
    A good conscience is a constant feast. (=A good conscience is a soft pillow.)
    問(wèn)心無(wú)愧, 高枕無(wú)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(méi)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(wú)恥到(做、說(shuō)……)
    in all conscience
    憑良心說(shuō), 真的, 的確, 一定
    make sth. a matter of conscience
    憑良心對(duì)待[做]某事
    另外在口語(yǔ)中,我們可以說(shuō)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(shuō)的就是一種堅(jiān)韌不屈的性格。