标题: I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions [打印本页] 作者: x-ace 时间: 2009-11-21 14:40 标题: I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. ----- Hellman
我不能、也不愿毁灭我的良心去迎合时尚。----赫尔曼
conscience means the awareness of a moral or ethical aspect to one''s conduct together with the urge to prefer right over wrong,良心就是对鞭策人行善而非作恶的本能行为在伦理或道德上的意识。例如：Let your conscience be your guide.让你的良心指引你。His conscience troubled him after he took the money.他拿了钱以后，他的良心使他不安。我们常说的凭良心就是according to one''s conscience,问心无愧是have a clear [good] conscience.
关于这个词，有如下习惯用语：
A good conscience is a constant feast. (=A good conscience is a soft pillow.)
问心无愧，高枕无忧。
A guilty conscience is a self-accuser. (=A guilty conscience needs no accuser.)
做贼心虚。
A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. 没做亏心事，不怕鬼叫门。
get sth. off one''s conscience 解除良心上的负担
have the conscience (to do; to say sth.) 竟厚颜无耻到(做、说...)
in all conscience 凭良心说，真的，的确，一定
make sth. a matter of conscience 凭良心对待［做］某事
另外在口语中，我们可以说My conscience！这表示啊呀！嗳！好家伙！(表示惊奇，遗憾等)的意思。
这句格言，其实说的就是一种坚韧不屈的性格。
