qualm

英 [kwɑːm]

美 [kwɑːm]

n.  (对自己行为的)顾虑，不安

复数：qualms　

GRETEM8法律

Collins.1 / BNC.13828 / COCA.14827

牛津词典

noun

• （对自己行为的）顾虑，不安
  a feeling of doubt or worry about whether what you are doing is right
  1. He had been working very hard so he had no qualms about taking a few days off.
     他一直辛勤工作，所以休息几天他觉得心安理得。

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 忧虑;不安;担忧
  If you have noqualmsabout doing something, you are not worried that it may be wrong in some way.
  1. I have no qualms about recommending this approach...
     我会毫不犹豫地推荐这一方法。
  2. Did she see her husband as capable of murder? She had used the word without a qualm.
     她觉得自己的丈夫可能杀人吗？在使用这个字眼的时候，她没有丝毫的不安。

英英释义

noun

• uneasiness about the fitness of an action
  Synonym:scruplemisgiving
• a mild state of nausea
  Synonym:queasinesssqueamishness

双语例句

• I have no qualms about recommending this approach
  我会毫不犹豫地推荐这一方法。
• Lastly she arrived at the tresses and felt a qualm of disgust.
  最后，她看到提到头发的那一句，心里觉得一阵恶心。
• Currency markets are famous for going to extremes, distorting economies and people's lives without any qualm of conscience or reference to value.
  汇市以走极端、歪曲经济表现和人们的生活水平著称，它这样做没有丝毫的良心不安。
• Fans believe that Global Live Events, in an attempt to qualm the media and the Estate, rescinded their offer to Simmons.
  歌迷相信，环球现场盛事公司是为了安抚媒体和遗产管理委员会的顾虑，因此撤掉了对西蒙斯的邀请。
• Did she see her husband as capable of murder? She had used the word without a qualm.
  她觉得自己的丈夫可能杀人吗？在使用这个字眼的时候，她没有丝毫的不安。
• He felt a qualm in his stomach, and it was more in memory of his own loneliness than anticipation of hers.
  他感到一阵心酸，主要是想起了自己的孤独，而不是因为想象到她的孤独。
• All these suppositions contradicted with the Newton's law of gravitational pull and it still remains under qualm as what lies deep inside the planet earth.
  所有这些与牛顿的引力法律相抵触推测，它仍在疑虑的是什么样的内心深处，仍然在地球上。
• It brings difficulty of selection and integration for human value comparison and puzzle, qualm and confuse of value pursuing, it also inspires human passion of hunting new value system and society dominant values.
  既导致了人们价值比较的选择和整合上的困难以及价值追求上的困惑、疑虑和迷惘，又激了人们对新的价值体系和社会主导价值观探求的热情。
• Their lives ended without compunction or qualm.
  他们没有任何愧疚或不安的杀了他们。
• The doctor seemed seized with a qualm of faintness.
  博士显得好象一阵眩晕发作。