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。
• 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。
• Their lives ended without compunction or qualm.
  他们没有任何愧疚或不安的杀了他们。
• With the development of he Taiping revolution, the American missionaries and the media calmed down from initial stirringness and religious zealousness, their attitude to he Taiping Revolution changed from jubilancy to qualm to hostileness.
  摘要随着太平天国革命的深入发展，美国传教士和舆论界从最初的激动和宗教热忱中冷静下来了，他们对太平天国的态度出现了一个从欢呼，到疑虑，再到仇视的变化。
• 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。
• 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。
• I was leaving without a qualm, without a single backwood glance.
  我走得于心无愧，义无反顾。
• 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。
• The doctor seemed seized with a qualm of faintness.
  博士显得好象一阵眩晕发作。
• 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。